Aphids come in a variety of colors, with or without wings, and some, like the cabbage and wooly aphids, are covered with a ...

Mechanical barriers that keep pests away from vegetable plants include row covers, fruit protection bags, and DIY traps.

My attempts at growing brassicas, or members of the cabbage family, have been all but thwarted by pests like cabbage loopers, cabbageworms, and harlequin beetles. And when the ravaged plants have ...

Cabbage white butterflies—Pieris rapae—are one of the most common garden visitors across southern and eastern Australia. The butterfly looks elegant in white with black dots on its wings: females have ...

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

The cabbage plant (Brassica oleracea) is a cool-season vegetable that is relatively easy plant to grow if you add companion plants alongside your crop. Cabbage is a popular food for humans—and among ...

Most gardeners have reached for a bottle of chemical spray at some point, only to find it killed the aphids along with the butterflies, the ladybugs, and probably some of the soil microbes too. What’s ...

Cabbage seedpod weevil is no longer a novel crop pest on the Prairies; it’s a permanent challenge farmers will have to manage ...

Most gardeners think of pest control as a spray bottle problem. Something goes wrong, something gets applied, and you hope for the best. The reality is that one of the most effective pest management ...