Those cottony clusters are actually pests.

In the vast insect order Paraneoptera, which includes true bugs, aphids, scale insects, whiteflies, thrips, lice, booklice, cicadas and their relatives, most species pass through a simple direct ...

They get in your hair, your mouth and your ears, and you’ll encounter them throughout your garden and yard. It seems like every year in late summer, aphids are flying around just about everywhere, ...

A new theoretical study proposes that the extended opening of closed spruce galls disrupted mating synchrony in ancestral ...

I was sitting outside enjoying the unseasonable warmth this last weekend and noticed tiny, white, fluffy things drifting around my backyard. I had seen these for the first time last year and found ...

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 ...

A researcher reports evidence of a gall-forming aphid defending itself against predators, a first for the species, Mordwilkoja vagabunda. The insects inject saliva into leaf stalks, inducing the plant ...

As warmer weather and fertilizer season approaches, keeping houseplants pest-free may feel like an overwhelming or unpreventable task. And aphids, known as the vampires of the pest world, are no ...

Aphids. You might stumble across them in your backyard, snacking on your veggie patch, in fields and orchards where crops are grown and even along roadsides. But this group of sap-sucking bugs are ...