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 ...

Sometimes it’s the tiniest pests that are the most frustrating, and dealing with aphids in your garden is proof of that. These tiny green bugs are no bigger than ⅛ of an inch, and yet they love to ...

Key Takeaways Neem oil naturally controls pests like aphids and thrips but should be used carefully to protect bees and tender plants.Apply in the morning or evening, avoid extreme temps, and test on ...

Garden pests are inevitable, but harsh chemicals aren't. These natural pesticides can help protect your plants without ...

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 tiny sucking insects from the insect family Aphididae. The group includes roughly 5,000 different species, with several hundred that may be a problem for agriculture and gardening. Adult ...

You should have applied the most important insect spray of the year — dormant oil sprays — during the winter. Why then? Because that’s when insects susceptible to these sprays are most vulnerable. Why ...

If you notice an aphid infestation this spring, the good news is that you don't need harsh chemicals to fight back: there's a ...

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 ...

South Dakota State University researchers are seeing more soybean aphids in monitoring plots. The increase in soybean aphid numbers means producers should step up scouting efforts, but they also ...

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 ...