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 ...

“I have found a sticky residue on the leaves of some of my houseplants and what appears to be little bugs under some of the leaves. What can I do to get rid of this problem?” You most likely are ...

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, ...

Researchers suspect steady rains and other factors may be responsible for a drop in a tiny bug’s infestation of a grain crop so far this year. Farmers in the Rio Grande Valley had feared the sugarcane ...

Aphids are tiny insects that suck the sap from a houseplant's leaves. Neem oil and diatomaceous earth are the best organic solutions to use to rid plants of aphids. Keeping a plant healthy and ...

Editor’s note: The following was written by Robert Koch, University of Minnesota Extension entomologist, Anthony Hanson, Liz Stahl, Angie Peltier and Claire LaCanne, Extension educators, for the ...

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) stem elongation is strongly reduced by a pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris) infestation. As pea aphid is a phloem feeder that does not transmit virus or toxins, ...

John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. MINNEAPOLIS — Research ...

New Yorkers remain bugged over the recent swarm of tiny, winged insects that have infested the Big Apple. Although entomology experts insist the tiny aphids don’t pose any health risk, Gothamites are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Phloem sap quality can differ between and within plants, and affect the performance of aphids. In turn, aphid infestation may change the ...