Carpet beetles are tiny insects that create holes in our clothing, rugs, and drapes, making their way in on infested items like second-hand furniture, or simply through the window. Their presence is ...

Despite their name, carpet beetles will attack pretty much any piece of fabric made available to them, including curtains, tablecloths, blankets, clothing, rugs and yes, carpets. Carpet beetles are ...

Ask any vegetable gardener about beans and pull up a chair. Some grow lima beans, dry beans or wax beans but almost every home garden has a patch of green beans. Beans grow quickly and don't need much ...

Japanese beetles are small, metallic green insects with copper wings that feed on over 300 different species of plants. These beetles feed on leaves, flowers and fruit, leaving very few plants safe ...

Japanese beetles are small, metallic green insects with copper wings that feed on over 300 different species of plants. These beetles feed on leaves, flowers and fruit, leaving very few safe crops.

Asparagus can be a long-lived and productive vegetable. The highly desirable crowns can provide harvests of delicious stems ...

Pathogens can drive the evolution of social behavior in insects. Ants and honeybees share nests of hundreds or thousands of individuals in a very small space. Hence the risk is high that infectious ...