For many hobby gardeners, aphids are among the most persistent problems of the entire gardening season. These small suckers ...

Your plants may be trying to tell you something. Spot this clue and it's time to take a closer look before a tiny pest turns into a much bigger problem.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An assassin bug larva feeds on a plant. At this time of the year, plants are really beginning to grow. And nothing is more ...

Cotton insect pest control starts with understanding which pests are likely to pose the greatest threat to future crops.

When an insecticide application fails to control bluegreen aphid, application conditions may not be the only cause. Research ...

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, ...

Aphids are a common sap-feeding insect pest found in the garden. Large clusters of aphids can raise understandable concern from gardeners. Aphids are also a favorite food of many predatory insects.

“I have found a sticky residue on the leaves of some of my houseplants and what appears to be little bugs under some of the leaves. What can I do to get rid of this problem?” You most likely are ...

Invasive Argentine ants have formed a unique symbiotic relationship with sap-feeding insects, creating challenges for citrus ...

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 ...