BUGS professional members can help repair the industry's tarnished image by providing safe, natural landscape maintenance services. BUGS Objectives BUGS is responding to the demand for a change in the way our urban landscapes are maintained. With this knowledge BUGS members are demonstrating to local communities, that healthy, bountiful, and beautiful gardens, lawns and landscapes are obtainable by following organic horticultural practices, while minimizing or eliminating the need for toxic agricultural chemicals. New products, equipment and horticultural techniques, current research, Integrated Pest Management, organic fertilization, soil science and analysis, and more are discussed. Professional members receive BUGS Professional Collaborator inserted into each issue dealing with topics of particular interest to those who work in the field of horticulture and landscape maintenance, design, and installation.
Informational brochures are available to members through our catalog.
Research is conducted by BUGS on various natural and organic horticultural products and techniques. Our findings are reported in BUGS Flyer. BUGS Flyer BUGS Flyer is the only publication of its kind devoted to natural organic landscape maintenance principles, products and practices. Show your support for more ecologically maintained urban landscapes and become a BUGS member . 1998 Pest Management Alternatives 'Pioneer Award' presented by Californians for Pesticide Reform, September 2000.