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 are small, soft-bodied, slow moving insects with piercing mouthparts that suck the sap out of plants. There are about 5000 different species. They are only about ¼ inch in size and can be any ...

White, fluffy bugs floating through Alabama this fall? They’re harmless to humans but can be a sticky, tree-damaging nuisance ...

Not every solution to garden pests comes in a spray bottle. One fragrant kitchen herb can help your mums stay bright and ...

Russell, L. M. 1989. "Additions and Corrections to Data on Types of Aphids in Palmer's Aphids of the Rocky Mountain Region (Homoptera: Aphididae)." Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 82 ...

Woolly aphids are small insects that are covered in a white, fuzzy-looking wax. They feed on leaves and excrete “copious amounts of honeydew,” which can, in turn, cause black sooty mold to accumulate, ...

Does it ever seem that you look at one of the plants in your garden and it’s totally fine, and then the next time you look at it, it’s covered with aphids? That could be because aphid populations can ...

Gardeners, another week has quickly passed, and we are well into gardening season! Last week we discussed ‘pests’ which prey upon gardeners beloved tomatoes. So, it is only fitting that this week, we ...

Plants communicate with neighbouring plants to activate an airborne defence against aphids. However, the genetic pathway underlying this defence mechanism is unknown. A signalling cascade centred ...

If you’re in the southeastern U.S. right now, you may have noticed swarms of fuzzy, white specks sticking to your car’s windshield or covering nearby trees. While the specks might look like dust, ...