Aphids are important herbivores of both wild and cultivated plants. Plants rely on unique mechanisms of recognition, signalling and defence to cope with the specialized mode of phloem feeding by ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Sep., 1972), pp. 165-172 (8 pages) Dimethoate and oxydemetonmethyl were superior to 7 other candidate systemics as trunk treatments for control of the spirea ...

WORTHINGTON, Minn. — Round Lake farmer Tom Wiese pointed out a winged aphid on the underside of a leaf in his soybean field, as crops specialist Liz Stahl looked on. Aphid populations across southwest ...

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 ...

At this time of the year, plants are really beginning to grow. And nothing is more attractive to pests than that tender, juicy new growth. The new leaves are easy to puncture and full of sap and ...

For pea aphids, the ability to go forth and multiply can depend on a single gene, according to new research. The gene isn't even in the insect -- it's in the tiny symbiotic bacteria housed inside ...

An organic cereal producer says the Russian wheat aphid may force him out of cropping if it become endemic. Bryce Pritchard from Murrayville near the Victorian-South Australian border said other pests ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — About 89.5 million acres of soybeans will be planted across the United States in 2017 — a record high, according to the USDA. Research published in the April 2017 issue of Pest ...

WORTHINGTON -- Rural Round Lake farmer Tom Wiese pointed out a winged aphid on the underside of a leaf in his soybean field Wednesday morning, as crops specialist Liz Stahl, of the Regional Extension ...