If you're a sorghum farmer, sugarcane aphids can mean big trouble. But if you're a pretty red lady beetle, the pesky bugs can mean lunch. And because lady bugs cause essentially no damage to the crops ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Millions of tiny insects known as ‘ahids are invading communities along Colorado’s Front Range, including a few neighborhoods in Centennial. In the Parkview community, resident ...

I have a nice rose-of-sharon bush, but I noticed that very few buds are opening, even though it has many, many nice-looking buds. Upon looking closer, I found all of these lady-bug-looking insects all ...

Armstrong Garden Centers will be giving away 1 million ladybugs across all store locations on April 20 to promote healthy gardens. “April is the best time of the year to begin planting summer fruits ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Farmers could save $10-$12 per acre on insecticide treatments for soybean aphids by turning to a control method that money can't buy, said a Purdue University entomologist. That ...

For once, I have a story about a good-guy bug invasion. There are reports from all over the region of hordes of lady beetles being everywhere. The WSU Master Gardener Plant Clinic has received ...

It’s not the walking dead or intergalatic aliens, but a small, domed, yellow-orange, (usually) spotted beetle. The multicolored Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), native to northeastern Asia. This ...

If you have a fear of bugs, even lady bugs, then Victoria Park next Thursday is not the place to be. The City of Regina will be releasing over 300,000 lady bugs there, as well as a few select areas ...

Besieged residents sweep away lady bugs by the thousands. — -- A swarm of ladybugs in western Romania has grown into a full blown-invasion, and there's nothing cute about it. Villagers throughout ...

They smell, bite and were clustered on building walls—inside and out—this fall. ’I could write a horror movie,’ says one Manitoban. Pamela Klassen, who lives a few kilometres from Sundown, Man., in ...