Marcus Chen
Areas of Expertise: Pest Identification | Integrated Pest Management
Find the Bug First
That has been my rule since 2015, and it is what led me to become a certified Integrated Pest Management specialist.
Most of my work involves identifying garden pests accurately and choosing the least disruptive way to manage them.
I teach pest control workshops, write for gardening publications, and help home gardeners identify what’s damaging their plants before choosing a treatment. Every article I share here follows that same approach.
How I Work
Most of my methods are simple. Hand-picking, insecticidal soap, and a few rows of dill and yarrow to bring in ladybugs handle most of what I see.
Over the years, I have dropped what did not hold up, like dish soap sprays and store-bought ladybugs.
Everything I share here has earned its place the same way, and that is the standard I hold every Marcus Chen article to.
Some nights, I’d sit outside just to relax, but the bugs had other plans. Mosquitoes, ants, even flies, they kept showing up like they owned
I glanced at my kitchen counter this morning, and there they were again: those persistent little specks hovering around a bowl of peaches I’d brought
People kill fruit flies with little thinking, these are a mere nuisance that haunts the fruit bowl, but they affect our world in a major
