Aphids have not waited for summer to make their move this year. Gardeners across the Southeast have spotted clusters of tiny ...

A tiny insect with a soft body and a needle-like mouthpart now commands serious attention across the Southeast. Agricultural specialists and extension agents have started tracking unusually ...

Symbiotic ants manipulate aphid reproduction rates to achieve a specific mix of green and red aphids, maintaining the inferior green aphids which produce the ants' favorite snack. Symbiotic ants ...

For pea aphids, the ability to go forth and multiply can depend on a single gene, according to new research. An overheated aphid with a mutation in that gene can't reproduce. The gene isn't even in ...

Human management practices and large detritivores such as earthworms incorporate plant litter into the soil, thereby forming a heterogeneous soil environment from which plant roots extract nutrients.

WORTHINGTON, Minn. — Round Lake farmer Tom Wiese pointed out a winged aphid on the underside of a leaf in his soybean field, as crops specialist Liz Stahl looked on. Aphid populations across southwest ...

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 ...

Aphids seem to find their way into every garden. They feed on the plant’s sap and literally suck the life out of the plant. Most aphids in California's mild climate reproduce asexually (without mating ...

Aphid populations across southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa have been excessive in recent weeks, forcing many farmers to not only apply insecticide, but continue monitoring their fields just in ...

Symbiotic ants manipulate aphid reproduction rates to achieve a specific mix of green and red aphids, maintaining the inferior green aphids which produce the ants' favorite snack. Ants and aphids ...