According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, aphids are "small, soft-bodied insects that feed by sucking the nutrient-rich liquids out of plants. In large numbers, they can weaken plants significantly, ...

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 ...

Using other insects to control pests like greenfly has been a massive success story for farming, reducing the use of chemical pesticides. But new research from Harper Adams University suggests the ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I have some Japanese yew shrubs that are a couple of years old that I planted ...

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 ...

QUESTION: A month or so back, I noticed half-inch black and orange bugs all over my orange butterfly weed plants (milkweed). The bugs didn't seem to bother the plants, but they seemed to lay tons of ...

A strong spray of water from your hose can safely knock aphids off pepper plants, but it may take a few rounds to fully clear them. Helpful insects like ladybugs and lacewings naturally control aphids ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...