Effective Techniques for Managing Garden Pests
Manage garden pests using integrated pest management principles
Discover the Hidden World of Flowers and Trees
Fantastic video that describes how plants grow and respond to threats using gorgeous microscopy images.
Murder Hornets Found in Washington State
The Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia. Their queens can grow to be two inches long and their quarter-inch stingers can pierce normal...
Paper Wasps are True Beneficials
The name wasp may conjure images of gangling black insects with stingers that could pierce a car door. But the common paper wasp looks...
Ah...those pesky deer
I've lived with deer in my ornamental and vegetable garden for 25 years now. I first tried to tempt them with their own plants, water,...
Samurai wasp takes on brown marmorated stink bug
A natural enemy has arrived to help control the brown marmorated stink bug, an invasive pest that devastates gardens and crops,...
Be on the Lookout -- a new pest in town
The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB to those in the know) is a newcomer to Oregon. Even so entomologists are predicting it can cause...