Spring planting brings a surprise twist for home growers, with a simple flower turning the tide in garden pest battles.

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 ...

Aphids are tiny soft-bodied pests that feed on a variety of plants, including vegetables, ornamentals, trees, shrubs, and houseplants. Because they reproduce quickly and have multiple generations per ...

With seed trays filling and costs rising, a peppery annual is quietly changing how many households tackle spring aphids. Across Britain’s allotments, ...

Protecting plants from insects doesn't necessarily involve the use of chemicals. Nature already provides some effective ways ...

There are lots of aphids hovering around during the process. I had tried to reduce the bugs by wiping it with water and dish ...

If you have pecan trees, you likely have a sticky coating on everything in the vicinity. It's called honeydew, and it is the excrement of yellow aphids who survive by sucking juice from pecan leaves ...

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It’s been a great spring this year. Lots of rain and cool temperatures that have fostered lush growth, lots of long-lasting flowers and a hoard of aphid infestations. The WSU Master Gardener Plant ...