Here’s a collection of our favorite flowers that will attract beneficial insects to your garden. Beneficial insects are the good guys in your garden. These little helpers work hard to keep pests ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various ...

Annual flowers can be planted in the beds around vegetables. In the Master Gardener Vegetable and Fruit Demonstration Garden (VFDG) at the New Castle County Cooperative Extension Office, sweet alyssum ...

Phytoplasmas, parasites that cause disease in crops and other plants, are reliant on sap-feeding insects, such as leafhoppers, for transmission. They attract ... of leaf-like flowers in infected ...

Choose dense shrubs with small white, yellow or blue flowers to attract insects. These bushy plants also make excellent habitat for small birds. Retaining trees ensures our larger birds have ...