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 ...

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 very common in most home gardens and they can be one of the peskiest pests that you can find in your vegetable garden. Aphids have tiny (adults are under a quarter inch), soft pear-shaped ...

In a bid to protect yields, Mid West canola growers are opting to crop dust to prevent an outbreak of budworm, combat aphids and diamondback moth as the growing season comes to a close. Following ...

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 ...

Aphids can be green, brown, yellow, with or without wings, and are identified by small structures called cornicles on their rear end. Aphids suck fluids from stems and leaves while leaves are still ...

While you're more likely to have bug problems with organic lettuce, you need to know how to spot possible insects on any kind ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Aphids that have plagued Louisiana sugarcane fields have spread to the state’s sorghum crop. LSU AgCenter Entomologist David Kerns said the pests first showed up in cane fields ...

Growers have been warned to not get caught out with newly emerging spring crops, as aphids are expected to fly two to three weeks earlier than normal, according to the AHDB’s Aphid News service. The ...

The winged from of bird cherry-oat aphids has been observed in winter wheat in Twin Falls County, Idaho; the wheat was planted in late-September. The observed aphid numbers were relatively low ...