Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Insects such as the Baldface hornet will survive winter by burrowing into crevices in trees, fallen logs, or tree stumps. Several ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, we visited with thousands of gardeners and aspiring gardeners at the Central Ohio Home & Garden Show and answered ...

During the cold New England winter months, we are blissfully ignorant of all the survival drama going on in the natural environment, at least as far as insects are concerned. Out of sight, out of mind ...

In general, insect populations are highly influenced by the weather, both during the growing season and winter. Most of the insects that inhabit North Dakota are known as "cold hardy insects," which ...

Winter transforms the world around us, blanketing landscapes in snow and silencing the buzz of summer. Yet, while we may retreat indoors to escape the cold, insects face a far greater challenge: ...

Those pesky Japanese beetles we typically see in mid-summer have a special ability to avoid freezing by creating their own anti-freeze chemicals. Ken Johnson Ken Johnson Those pesky Japanese beetles ...

Cold snapChattanooga has had 11 straight days of below normal temperatures.Day Actual average temperature Departure from normalJan. 1 36 -4Jan. 2 26 -14Jan. 3 25 -15Jan. 4 24 -15Jan. 5 25 -14Jan. 6 27 ...

The recent snows and chill have given us a taste of late winter. Amid the 2 feet of snow and temperatures in the zero-degree range, we're not likely to think of seeing insects. But in the right ...

I’ve frequently fielded this question in February: “How will the extreme cold snap in February affect the insects this summer?” People like to think the extreme cold blast we experienced in February ...

Several gardeners I work with have recently expressed hope that the extreme cold temperatures and abundance of snow and ice that we have experienced the past few weeks in central Ohio will kill or ...

Snow and cold temperatures rarely kill plants native to Ohio. Most insects survive cold winters by producing an antifreeze-like chemical or entering diapause. Recently, we visited with thousands of ...