Aphids are tiny soft-bodied pests that feed on a variety of plants, including vegetables, ornamentals, trees, shrubs, and ...

See that white, fuzzy stuff on your trees or shrubs? It is easy to confuse it with fungus or mold, but it could also be woolly aphids taking over your garden. Also known as blue fuzzy butts, these sap ...

As our planting and growing season comes in full swing, you may start to see many different pests and insects, including ...

Aphid populations exhibit a complex interplay of genetic variation and spatial organisation shaped by reproductive mode, dispersal ability and environmental factors. Genetic diversity in aphids ranges ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fields of wheat are so associated with the U.S. that they’re featured in the song America the Beautiful as “amber waves of grain.” But those amber fields face a big threat: Russian wheat aphids. As ...

A tiny bug may be key in fending off garlic mustard, the invasive plant that's popping up everywhere from backyards to forests nationwide. According to the USDA's National Invasive Species Center, ...

Q: Why is it important to only use pesticides when absolutely necessary? If I see aphids on numerous plants in my garden, why ...

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, ...