Bumblebees are only an inch long, but they help power the global food system. Roughly one-third of the food we grow depends ...

Aphids have not waited for summer to make their move this year. Gardeners across the Southeast have spotted clusters of tiny green, black, and even pink insects coating tender new growth weeks ahead ...

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 ...

Answer: When gardeners see clusters of orange-yellow oleander aphids (Aphis nerii), or any aphids for that matter, they immediately need to go on the defense! Aphids reproduce prolifically and can ...

Why Do Aphids Multiply So Quickly? Come spring and summer, with those milder temperatures rolling in, aphid numbers can explode—almost literally! This isn’t just your imagination. Aphids are masters ...

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 ...

If you’ve grown a peach, apple, or cherry tree for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly met the enemy. Tiny, ...

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 ...