Nursing the yard through a hot summer sometimes is more about what you don’t do than what you do. Some activities are wasteful, some are counter-productive, and a few are downright plant-harmful when ...

Ben Franklin and Mark Twain get credit for a lot of quips and quotes, some of which they actually said. "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door” is not one of them.

Japanese beetles might be harmless to humans but that doesn’t mean you want them around. This invasive insect feeds on more than 300 plants and costs the United States more than $460 million a year to ...

Minnesota (WCCO) — Some University of Minnesota students have come up with a creative solution for a pesky problem. “Every year, these Japanese beetles would come and completely eat away at our plum ...

Garden ornaments have become increasingly popular in recent years and the most common one is a plastic yellow fin tail with a green and white bag attached to it. OK. It's really a Japanese beetle trap ...

The invasive Japanese beetle is the most devastating plant pest in the eastern United States. Johnson County Extension First found in the United States in 1916, after accidentally being introduced in ...

Aditya Prabhu loved eating the peaches off the tree in the backyard of his mom’s house. The only problem was the plant produced only a few fruits a year because Japanese beetles in the hundreds would ...

A coconut rhinoceros beetle has been found in a Hawaii Department of Agriculture trap in Waikoloa, the first detection of the invasive and destructive insect on the Big Island in nearly a year, state ...