A swarm of destructive wasp-like insects is spreading fast, and it could mean bad news for pine trees, holiday traditions, and your backyard.

An aggressive hatch of Douglas-fir tussock moth caterpillars is threatening trees, both in national forests and in Santa Fe.

The global demand for food is continuously increasing. The use of artificial intelligence can vastly improve the field of agriculture. Computer vision can help detect issues with crops. This work ...

Parts of the North Cascades and Mount Baker are facing an outbreak of the western spruce budworm, aerial surveys reveal. The ...

It’s hard enough dealing with long-standing pests, but it’s even more overwhelming to add new pests to the lineup, namely gall midge and tentiform leaf miner. But don’t let these new pests ...

A garden pro reveals the missteps that make plants especially vulnerable—and how to avoid them. Stop us if this sounds familiar: You’ve done your research, and headed to the nursery to spend your hard ...

While cinnamon does have pest- and disease-repelling properties, how you apply it matters. Gardeners sometimes tout cinnamon as a repellent for pests and a remedy for plant diseases. Is this common ...

A rise in the number of pests being caught on Transmission Gully, and the fear of ferrets, is concerning those wanting to make Wellington predator free. Documents released under the official ...

Advice on keeping ticks out of your yard can be confusing. Deer are well-known hosts of the pests, and some experts advise using ferns in your yard because deer typically avoid them. That move, in ...

Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three years ...

Aphids, brown spots, mosaics, rusts, powdery mildew and Alternaria blotches are common types of early apple leaf pests and diseases that severely affect the yield and quality of apples. Recently, deep ...