Ask any vegetable gardener about beans and pull up a chair. Some grow lima beans, dry beans or wax beans but almost every home garden has a patch of green beans. Beans grow quickly and don't need much ...

Adult squash beetles will feed on the leaves of cucurbit plants, causing them to have a lacy appearance. Adult squash beetles will feed on the leaves of cucurbit plants, causing them to have a lacy ...

Lady beetles are widely considered a gardener’s friend. Sure, multi-colored Asian lady beetles can be a nuisance when they enter our homes during the fall. But they are all predatory, beneficial ...

Q: For the first time in 20 years of gardening, I’ve been invaded by Mexican bean beetles. They stripped my bean plants, then the squash plants, then cucumbers, and then the sunflowers. How can I ...

Q: Something is chewing my lima bean leaves. What should I look for, and how do I treat it? A: It’s probably Mexican bean beetles, which feed on all types of bean plants and can have between one and ...

As autumn gets serious and the rabbits and squirrels collect their bounty for winter, I am also finishing my canning/freezing for the season. Hooray! We have tomatoes, peaches, strawberries, potatoes, ...

The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum is located at Brigham Young University. The museum was opened to the public in 1978, is accredited by the American Association of Museums and maintains membership ...