Cute and colorful, ladybugs (more correctly termed lady beetles) are iconic symbols of a healthy garden. They help pollinate numerous species of flowers and are beloved by gardeners for their ...

Bumblebees are essential pollinators. Their unique buzz helps fertilize plants like tomatoes and blueberries. Plant Native flowers to attract them. Ladybirds, or ladybugs, eat aphids, mites, and scale ...

Above: lady beetles are being released into Purdue greenhouses as a biological control agent. Photo by Purdue University. Some insects are pests, but not all insects are bad. Overwhelmingly, the ...

What’s known as the ladybug in the United States is called the ladybird beetle in the U.K. or lady beetles elsewhere. Entomologists prefer those names because ladybugs are not “true” bugs, in the ...

Of all the insects we find in the garden, lady beetles have to be one of our favorites. Lady beetles don’t harm any of our plants, but they spend their lives eating those who do. Because of that, we ...