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 ...
Imagine a pest that can arrive unannounced, suck your soybean plants dry and then double in numbers in two days. Behold the soybean aphid. This native of Eastern Asia can pack a heavy punch and knock ...
Normally, yardeners would be screaming about aphids and the increasing numbers of the bugs’ predators, wasps and yellow jackets. I am not sure, but the excessive winds we have experienced may be one ...
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 ...
Warm weather and pest problems seem to go hand in hand, and this year is no exception. Over the past few weeks, the pest that we are getting the most questions on is the aphid. Aphid is typically ...
While examining my milkweed, I noticed an unsightly black, sooty mold exclusively on the underside of leaves on my common milkweed plants. I knew immediately that aphids, a small 1/16- to 1/8-inch ...
Q. Help! I have aphids covering my newly planted vegetable plants. What can I do to rid my plants of this aphid hoard? I would like to use something organic. A. Aphids are a sucking insect that have ...
Also known as oleander aphids, milkweed aphids are not native to North America; they originated in the Mediterranean region. In their native land, these aphids primarily fed on oleander plants, but in ...
Alias: The cereal grass aphid has been in the United States for several decades, but it mostly stayed in place in remote areas of Oregon. Unfortunately, it is now showing signs of spreading east, the ...
An adult Euceraphis punctipennis (Zetterstedt) is the first winged specimen and the first species of the aphid subfamily Drepanosiphinae to be recorded as having 4 cornicles.
However badly that home renovation goes, be glad you’re not a young aphid. The need for repair can arise while hundreds or thousands of these aphids live inside a hard-shelled, closed lump called a ...
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 ...