Other important cucumber pollinators include native bee species, syrphid flies (a.k.a. hover or flower flies), and soldier beetles (which are also good predators). Many of the same plants that ...

Cultural tip: Avoid overfertilizing roses with water-soluble, nitrogen-based fertilizers, which prompts overgrowth of aphid-favorite soft, succulent growth. Sweet alyssum interplanted among roses ...

But unlike bees, they don’t utilize ultraviolet coloration as guides. Syrphid flies, often called flower flies, are some of the first spring pollinators showing up on my flowering plants ...

The larvae of ladybugs, minute pirate bugs, lacewings and syrphid flies eat aphids and other pest insects voraciously. And they have no side effects in your yard. (Here are some pictures of some ...

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the ...