Are your garden plants stunted, shriveled, yellowing, or curling at the leaves, despite your best efforts to keep them alive? Check the undersides of the leaves, and you might find the culprit: large ...

Most aphids show cyclical parthenogenesis, have short generation times and complete several generations each season. Two hypotheses have been proposed to account for the adaptive seasonal trends ...

The aphid Pemphigus betae does not induce galls at random on leaves of its host plant, Populus angustifolia (narrowleaf cottonwood). Probability of stem mother success in forming a gall, body mass of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 13, 2012) There’s a new tool in the fight against aphids. Research published in the journal Horticultural Science discovered that reducing the amount of ultra-violet (UV) ...

Q: I bought some ladybugs to eat the aphids on my roses. Almost all of them flew away after I released them in my garden. Is there anything I can do to keep them in my yard? A: Adult ladybugs and ...

One of the worst effects of ant infestation doesn’t happen inside your house or on your picnic blanket. It takes place in farms and gardens, where many species of ants tend to herds of aphids. These ...

Aphids may not be able to fly, but they can fall pretty well: Like defenestrated cats, the common insects usually land upright, to paraphrase a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal ...

Aphids are a common sight in the summer, notorious for draining the life out of plants by sucking their sap. Roses plagued by aphids may exhibit curled leaves or be coated with a sticky residue known ...