Key Points Aphids damage plants by stunting growth, delaying flowers, and attracting ants that protect them.Non-chemical ...

Gardeners who notice sudden clusters of aphids on new spring growth often reach for controls right away. A closer inspection, ...

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

Aphid populations exhibit a complex interplay of genetic variation and spatial organisation shaped by reproductive mode, dispersal ability and environmental factors. Genetic diversity in aphids ranges ...

Alaska is huge, and most of us tend to concentrate on the big things she offers. However, there’s some really incredible stuff happening on a much smaller scale that we often ignore. Yes, I am getting ...

Learn how ginger and lemongrass may help keep aphids away naturally while adding fragrance, beauty, and flavor to your garden ...

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 ...

Aphids can be a real frustration for gardeners, but luckily, there is a natural citrus derivative that can take care of a bug ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...

Fields of wheat are so associated with the U.S. that they’re featured in the song America the Beautiful as “amber waves of grain.” But those amber fields face a big threat: Russian wheat aphids. As ...

Scientists examined the biological variations in pea aphids, insects that reproduce frequently enough to evolve before our eyes, by tracing the prevalence of their protective endosymbiont, ...