Dear Neil: My crape myrtles have been loaded up with aphids ... Is there something I can put on them before the insects arrive? Use the systemic insecticide Merit (Imidacloprid) as a soil drench.

Tallamy made a case that our native birds and insects evolved with native plants ... is that if you use native plants instead of crape myrtle from Asia, it’s going to lower your property ...

Learn More › Because plants derive their energy from sunlight, most flowering shrubs like lots of it ... Cultivated worldwide, crape myrtle is a low-maintenance, sun-loving shrub often found ...

The entomologist urges everyone to make their yard more ecofriendly by planting plants that provide food for insects.

Divide perennials like daylilies and chrysanthemums. Prune crepe myrtles, cane berries ... To smother overwintering insect eggs and pest such as aphids and mites, and scale, spray deciduous flowering ...

Insect populations are crashing worldwide. It’s not just farming. Scientists mapped 3,000 causes and found many ignored ...

Should you be concerned about these special types of bees that can dig holes in your yard in South Carolina? Here’s what to ...

Many of the newer varieties of crape myrtles are introduced as members of collections. Growers like to have proprietary varieties that no one else can offer. Then (I’m guessing here) some of ...