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 ...

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Key Points Aphids are tiny sap-sucking pests that quickly damage houseplants.Early infestations can be controlled with water, soap, neem oil, or manual removal.Healthy plants are less likely to ...

I was looking over my database from last year, to see if there were any distinct patterns that may appear during our growing season this year. What surprised me was approximately 30% of the calls and ...

Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...

Above: lady beetles are being released into Purdue greenhouses as a biological control agent. Photo by Purdue University. Some insects are pests, but not all insects are bad. Overwhelmingly, the ...

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 ...

Gardeners can protect their plants from common pests like aphids, whiteflies, and caterpillars using natural methods. Instead ...

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, ...