It is important to understand life stages because pest controls usually target the damaging or most vulnerable stage of insect development. Timing is also a factor. We know roughly when the smallest ...

That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo into a web-based application called InsectNet ...

Nearly all gardeners have tales of how their once-pristine crops came to be ravaged by an onslaught of insects.

Because the development of both plants and insects ... allows gardeners and farmers to track the growth stages of various plants and insects based on accumulated heat units over time.

A more useful approach for gardeners may be the concept of phenology and a weather-measurement system called growing degree ...