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 ...

This week on Backyard Farmer we return to the studio to focus on aphid control and summer turf tips. This week on Backyard Farmer we return to the studio to focus on aphid control and summer turf tips ...

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 ...

Seven insecticides (Orthene™(O,S-Dimethyl acetylphosphoroamidothioate), carbofuran, dimethoate, disulfoton, methomyl, monocrotophos, and oxydemethonmethyl) applied as foliar sprays provided excellent ...

Hoverfly larvae are small, tapered maggots that crawl over foliage and help kill insect pests. Black-and-yellow-striped adults resemble yellow jackets but are harmless to humans. This article is part ...

Oilseed rape growers now have an effective option to control late aphid infestations which are becoming increasingly resistant to pyrethroid sprays, following the approval of a key insecticide for ...

The sugarcane aphid, a once devastating pest for sorghum producers, has been kept under control so far during the 2021 season by nature and science. From the Rio Grande Valley to the Panhandle, Texas ...

In the UK, there are more than 500 species of aphid and the insects vary in size and colour. Often aphids in the UK range from 1mm to 7mm long and are green, black, yellow, brown or orange in colour.

It’s an insect Jekyll and Hyde. A species of aphid that often forms a mutually beneficial relationship with ants will occasionally turn on its protectors, infiltrating their nest and sucking vital ...

Many animals have intimate symbioses with bacteria that live within cells or tissues and that are a normal part of the host. This fusion of two distinct metabolic systems has a variety of potential ...

Wingless, root-dwelling aphids from the same species can come in two different shapes: round or flat. While the round sapsuckers maintain a peaceful, mutually beneficial relationship with ants, the ...