Aphids are little, soft-bodied insects that can suck the life out of your fruit trees. Here are some tips to prevent them ...

The green peach aphid, despite its name, is a pest of potatoes. Besides siphoning off juices from potato plants, the aphid can infect the plants with viruses that cause an estimated $100 million ...

Using an optimized CRISPR/Cas9 workflow and DIPA-CRISPR, researchers identified Laccase2 as essential for hardening and darkening overwintering eggs in pea aphids. Knockout mutations left eggs fragile ...

Even after hosing aphids off a plant, a few will remain, and others will arrive. Repeated hosing or other management treatments are required to manage the pests. The winged aphids can accumulate in ...

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 ...

Question: I think my peach tree has aphids, but how can I be sure? A: Green peach aphids are the most common aphids on peach trees. They are small and can be difficult to detect, but their damage is ...

When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature. Many gardeners will tell you ...

Woolly aphids may be to blame. These insects suck sap from healthy plants and leave a sticky substance behind. They can be ...

It’s not often that Arnold Schwarzenegger gets compared to an aphid. An ant, maybe–many ants spend all day lifting heavy weights and defending the homeland. Unlike ants, bees, or Hollywood heroes, ...