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 ...

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 ...

As temperatures drop in the fall, aphids, like other garden pests, are less active, but don’t be fooled by appearances. Aphids overwinter as eggs on plants or in the soil, as adults in milder climates ...

Unless you carefully inspect the leaves of a plant in your garden, you might not ever see the tiny little bugs known as ...

It may seem odd to think of aphids producing their offspring while already pregnant, but in actuality, it is not an unusual ...

I should have realized that this would be the “year of the aphid” back in March when I found my pepper starts were being attacked by the little pests. By mid-June I was found that many people are ...

Aphids represent one of the most pervasive and economically significant insect pests of cereal crops worldwide. Key species such as Sitobion avenae, Rhopalosiphum padi and Schizaphis graminum exploit ...

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 ...

Normally, animals get their DNA from their parents. But a new study shows that they can also get genes from another species. In fact, animals can even take genes from creatures outside of the animal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Department of Forestry is assessing damage done by the spruce aphid insect along the Oregon Coast after an outbreak in ...

A March 19 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows an insect with distinct black markings resting on a person's finger. "Since when do mosquitos have (numbers) stamped on them?" reads ...