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 ...
Aphids are tiny soft-bodied pests that feed on a variety of plants, including vegetables, ornamentals, trees, shrubs, and houseplants. Because they reproduce quickly and have multiple generations per ...
Aphids massed on brand-new buds is the gardening version of a leaky tap: small, constant, maddening. You watch the tight ...
Protecting plants from insects doesn't necessarily involve the use of chemicals. Nature already provides some effective ways ...
Here are expert tips on what to do in the fall to prevent aphids from returning and infesting your plants again next spring.
If you have a garden, you have aphids. These tiny critters have a reputation for decimating plants, and many gardeners are quick to grab the spray bottle as soon as they spot any. After all, if you ...
If you have pecan trees, you likely have a sticky coating on everything in the vicinity. It's called honeydew, and it is the excrement of yellow aphids who survive by sucking juice from pecan leaves ...
It’s been a great spring this year. Lots of rain and cool temperatures that have fostered lush growth, lots of long-lasting flowers and a hoard of aphid infestations. The WSU Master Gardener Plant ...
Sometimes a quick check on Twitter can tell you whether an insect pest is showing up in farmers’ fields, ready to inflict damage on crops. In the last few days, that’s been true regarding mentions of ...
University of Idaho Extension researchers this year documented an increase in aphids in the state’s southeast. And pressure ...