A couple of days ago, I glanced at some potato plants in my garden and in the corner of my eye noticed a yellow and black-striped bug crawling over the leaves. It was a four-striped plant bug. On ...

Squash bugs harm zucchini and pumpkins by feeding on leaves and fruit, leading to wilting and poor harvests. Control them early with handpicking, organic sprays, and by attracting beneficial insects.

Lots of landscape plants are looking wilted, yellowed, and generally worse-for-wear these days, thanks to the long streak of hot, dry, late-summer weather. However, not all of the plant damage can be ...

Adults sport a deep gray-blue body color with an orange trim outline. Their “tail end” is dark black and semi-diamond shaped. When full grown, the bug can reach up to 1/2” in length, so you won't need ...

If you’ve noticed brown or gray insects with large, flat bodies scrambling over your precious zucchini, pumpkins, or squash, you may be dealing with a squash bug problem. These pests feed on most ...

When you think of a squash bug, think noun, not verb — the vegetable, not the act of flattening an insect. Squash bugs are pests that wreak havoc on cucurbits such as summer squash, zucchini, ...

Sophia Bender, 9, center, plays bouncy-ball roller hockey with Whitney Guitar, 6, right, and Rheagan Guitar, 8, left, while enjoying the warm weather on Wednesday at the Arboretum in Louisville. When ...

A discovery about how a common insect acquires a microbe that is essential for its growth may help in the control of an agricultural pest. The squash bug carries a gut bacterium that is essential for ...

The squash bug carries a gut bacterium that is essential for the bug’s development into an adult. But when they hatch from their eggs, squash bug nymphs do not have the bacteria in their systems. That ...