If you've ever walked into your vegetable garden and discovered plant after plant chopped down to the ground, you've been ambushed by cutworms. These ordinary-looking caterpillars can dash all your ...

Spring ushers in sunlight, blossoms, and the eager buzz of life returning to the garden. Amid this cheer lurks a quiet menace capable of turning careful planting into heartbreak overnight. Cutworms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. prill / iStock / Getty Images Plus Cutworm is a generic term referring to the caterpillar of various moth species that attack ...

Having a vegetable garden is a great way to grow your own food. You know where it came from, and how it was grown. Eating your home-grown vegetables can give you a sense of accomplishment, get you ...

University of Missouri Integrated Pest Management has issued its first pest alerts of the growing season. MU Extension state field crops and forage entomologist Ivair Valmorbida says corn and wheat ...

There are three common underground insect pests often encountered while preparing garden soil or planting a garden. They are grubs, wireworms and cutworms. Grubs are the larval stage of an assortment ...

Spring is finally here, and we can start working in the garden and yard! The Utah State University Extension Gardener’s Almanac provides a checklist for each month as well as links to tips and further ...

While moths are usually innocuous in the garden, their caterpillars can cause lots of problems. These caterpillars—collectively referred to as cutworms—can cut down garden seedlings seemingly ...