If you’ve been diligent about keeping your lawn watered this summer, it’s probably lush and green right now even if your neighbors’ lawns are brown and shriveled. The problem is that the same lawn ...

Leather jackets are the larvae of the crane fly, which resembles an overgrown mosquito when mature. These larvae have a cylindrical shape with a head that retracts into the thorax. The hungry larvae ...

With the arrival of warm weather also comes the arrival of summer's menaces: bugs. While some people might detest insects just for being so buggy, for gardeners, each year might feel like another new ...

White grubs are the larval stage of insects commonly known as May or June beetles (or Junebugs). Texas has almost 100 species of these beetles, most of which do not cause significant economic damage ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series on Japanese beetles. As I was wandering through the garden, to my horror, I saw evil Japanese beetles munching on my tree and shrub leaves.