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 ...

When you have an aphid invasion, sometimes natural predators are your best line of defense instead of traditional pesticides. One Instagrammer shared his solution to fend off pesky aphids and protect ...

Aphids, particularly prevalent in the summer months, attack plants by draining their sap. Roses ravaged by aphids might exhibit curling leaves or be coated with a sticky residue called honeydew, ...

There are lots of common garden pests that literally will almost bring a gardener who is a preacher to swear. Almost! Some years I have more trouble than normal, and this is one of those years. Almost ...

Aphids are small insects which feed on the stems, flowers and in some cases, the roots of plants, though they are most commonly found on the underside of leaves. These quarter-inch-long pests can be a ...

When you think of essential oils, self-care probably comes to mind first — use a few drops in a relaxing bath or as part of a soothing massage. Or you may be a skeptic who doubts any powers essential ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with Times readers. Q: I have a patch of little ...

Soybean aphids may be small, but they find strength in numbers. With a common economic threshold of 250 aphids per plant, farmers could easily see scenarios where a 100-acre field could literally ...

Chanie Kirschner is a writer, advice columnist, and educator who has covered topics ranging from parenting to fashion to sustainability. Aphids are tiny, soft-bodied sap-sucking insects that can be ...