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 ...

Almost every gardener discovers aphids on their plants at one time or another. Before I get into what they are and how to control them, here is the most interesting thing about them: Female aphids are ...

When I see garden pests like aphids and caterpillars in our garden I don’t spring into action with some antidote. I don’t spray chemicals anymore, and I even hesitate to use soap spray or some other ...

Here's a neat trick or hack using vaseline to organically control pests like aphids or scale/mealybugs on a fruit tree. Smear vaseline around the trunk of the tree to stop ants from climbing up and ...

Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...

To get rid of aphids, wash plants thoroughly and repeatedly throughout the fall. Selectively prune heavily infested branches of trees or shrubs. Keep your yard and garden clean of debris to reduce ...

Q:I run the Children's Dance and Family Programs at the San Francisco Richmond District Y branch. My students, their parents and I have renovated our rooftop garden. It has been 1 1/2 years since we ...

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 ...

But new research from Harper Adams University suggests the aphids may well be evolving resistance to this approach. Scientists there are talking to the companies that farm wasps and produce other ...

Pea aphids – a serious agricultural pest – have the ability to see and avoid a common, aphid-killing bacteria on plant leaves, according to a new Cornell study published Sept. 27 in Current Biology.

Researchers have found they can control one of fruit growers' more severe pests, aphids, with a remarkably benign tool: flowers. The discovery is a boon for organic as well as conventional tree fruit ...