Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harlequin bugs (Murgantia histrionica) are not clowns, jesters or jokers as their common name suggests. They are invasive, true ...

What are those brightly colored, shield-shaped insects in the vegetable garden? Are they friends or foes? Looking something like a fancy stinkbug, harlequin bugs suck the nutrients out of plant leaves ...

Some insects show up in the garden and do significant damage to crops. They are the pests. Others don't harm plants at all; they just eat pest insects. It's interesting that the beneficial predators ...

When I returned from a quick vacation I found uninvited kale sitters in my garden. A hundred harlequin bugs would not be an exaggeration for the number of critters that were happily munching and ...

Q: For several springs in a row, my kale looks beat up by orange and black insects. How can I get rid of them for this season? A: It sounds like you have a population of harlequin bugs. These members ...

Harlequin bugs (Murgantia histrionica) are not clowns, jesters or jokers as their common name suggests. They are invasive, true bugs from the stink bug family. These ornately beautiful, black, ...