If you do it consecutively on aphids for a number of days, they will actually suffocate." Gardener reveals genius hack for ...

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 ...

AMES, Iowa - Two Iowa State University researchers are examining a new method of controlling soybean aphids without the use of chemical pesticides. Bryony Bonning, professor of entomology, and Allen ...

Spring — when garden and landscape plants sprout new growth — is the time plant-damaging insects are at their peak. Getting the jump on these pests is the most effective way to ward off any potential ...

Aphids are one pest that make every gardener sigh as they return continuously. They're extremely common and don't discriminate in the plants they attack – ornamentals, edibles, flowers, foliage, and ...

It's time to start working on managing pests in your fruit and landscape trees this year. Springtime is starting, even if it is delayed a bit from the normal timing. Given the huge differences in ...

We have a blue spruce that we got from Bookcliff many years ago. I noticed this spring that something is eating away at the leaves. We had a tree "expert" stop by and he found little black insects.

Ants farm aphids. It's weird yet fascinating. And a bit like a miniature horror movie. But it's a nightmare for gardeners.

Answer: When gardeners see clusters of orange-yellow oleander aphids (Aphis nerii), or any aphids for that matter, they immediately need to go on the defense! Aphids reproduce prolifically and can ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa -- Experts say farmers are winning the battle against a pest that has invaded soybean fields in Iowa since 2000. The soybean aphids, a tiny greenish-yellow insect, feed on soybean plants ...