Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exploring anywhere on Earth, look closely and you’ll find insects. Check your backyard and you may see ants, beetles, crickets, ...

Tiny white bugs, known as woolly aphids, leave a sticky residue behind and are frustrating to deal with. See five tips pros ...

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 ...

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 ...

See that white, fuzzy stuff on your trees or shrubs? It is easy to confuse it with fungus or mold, but it could also be woolly aphids taking over your garden. Also known as blue fuzzy butts, these sap ...

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

Russell, L. M. 1989. "Additions and Corrections to Data on Types of Aphids in Palmer's Aphids of the Rocky Mountain Region (Homoptera: Aphididae)." Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 82 ...

It may seem odd to think of aphids producing their offspring while already pregnant, but in actuality, it is not an unusual phenomenon among insects. Aphids have been able to adapt to a reproductive ...