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Pests

Learn how to identify and deal with problem insects and garden pests. Topics range from insect identification to products and recipes for homemade, chemical-free, and organic pest control.

  • A young woman spraying plants growing in pots.
    12 Ways to Prevent and Treat Fungus Gnats
  • A woman washing a houseplant in a shower.
    How to Get Rid of Mealybugs for Good
  • A giant larva in the ground.
    11 Ways to Get Rid of Lawn Grubs Naturally!
  • Emerald Ash Borer
    Why Is My Ash Tree Dying? All About the Emerald Ash Borer
  • Japanese beetles on a rose.
    A Fact Sheet for Japanese Beetles
  • Hand with a glove holding a slug over a blue bucket.
    How to Control Slugs and Snails Organically
  • Nice Smelling Anti Rodent Bags With Simple Kitchen Spices
    How To Make Nice Smelling Anti Rodent Bags With Simple Kitchen Spices
  • A gardener is planting fall flower bulbs.
    9 Ways to Protect Overwintering Bulbs from Rodents
  • Spraying insecticidal soap in the garden.
    Insecticidal Soap: The Organic Gardener’s Best Friend
  • Wild brown rat eating seeds.
    16 Tips to Get Rid of Rats in Your Garden
  • Pumpkin squash crops
    Trap Cropping 101: What It Is + How To Do It
  • An adorable brown squirrel on a tree eats a ripe tomato.
    15 Common Tomato Pests and How to Control Them
  • A squash vine borer moth sipping the nectar of a swamp milkweed flower.
    How To Stop Squash Vine Borers in Their Tracks + Save Squash Plants
  • A japanese beetle on a rosebud.
    12 Ways To Kill Japanese Beetles (+ Bonus Tips)
  • A group of Viburnum leaf beetle larvae feeding on an Aspen tree leaf, Populus tremula.
    8 Tips for Controlling Viburnum Leaf Beetles All Naturally
  • Two bluebirds are eating mealworms on the top of a birdhouse.
    16 Ways to Attract Bluebirds for Garden Pest Control
  • Rinsing a houseplant in the sink to splash all pests.
    10 Safe Ways to Eliminate Aphids on Your Houseplants
  • A gardener spraying houseplants.
    Top 10 Houseplant Pests + 11 Ways to Destroy Them
  • A young woman spraying her houseplants.
    Proven Ways to Kill Mealybugs on Houseplants
  • A woman spraying a houseplant with a bottle sprayer.
    How to Get Rid of Hard Bodied Scale on Indoor Plants
  • A gardener wearing a glove holds a jumping worm.
    How to Prevent and Remove Invasive Jumping Worms
  • A woman using a handheld vacuum to suck pests on a plant.
    How to Use a Handheld Vacuum to Control Garden Insects (Video)
  • A woman pours Copper Fungicide into a garden sprayer.
    Organic Gardener’s First Aid Kit for Fighting Pests and Diseases
  • A farmer holds freshly harvested white icicle radishes.
    20 Best Companion Plants to Grow for Natural Pest Control
  • Woman with gloves spraying with hand sprayer a blooming fruit tree against plant diseases and pests
    15 Tips to Use Organic Pesticides Safely
  • A little girl in the meadow is bitten by mosquitoes.
    12 Tips to Keep Mosquitos Out of Your Yard Without Chemicals
  • A farmer holding a piece of potato with wireworm.
    12 Ways to Prevent and Treat Wireworms Organically
  • Chicken tractor on the wheels in a backyard garden.
    5 Best Chicken Tractors for Natural Pest Control
  • A flying bat in the dark.
    6 Ways to Attract Bats to Your Yard for Natural Pest Control
  • A hand peeling off a sticker from a sticky gnat trap.
    Gnat Problem? Honest Sticky Gnat Trap Review!
  • Woman gardener holding a hornworm on a tomato leaf.
    14 Tips to Control Tomato Hornworms in your Organic Garden
  • A gardener spraying a homemade vinegar spray on a plant growing in a pot.
    How to Kill Aphids and Soil Gnats with Homemade Vinegar Spray
  • Cute looking field vole.
    7 Easy Ways to Keep Voles out of your Garden
  • BLack bean aphids on a stem close-up.
    How to Keep Aphids Out of Your Organic Garden (10 Ways)
  • Macro side view of leaf footed bug.
    8 Ways to Control Leaf-Footed Bugs Organically + Insect and Damage ID
  • 10 Most Common Garden Pests and How to Fight Them
  • 10 Natural Pesticides With Recipes and How to Use Them
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