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 ...

ASPEN, Colo.—Aspen is battling a bumper crop of aphid bugs on trees this year. City officials say the cool, rainy spring has led to a bumper crop of aphids, also known as plant lice. The small bugs ...

I often hear from gardeners who are worried when they discover a few aphids on their favorite rose. While aphids can be troublesome garden pests, especially when their population numbers more than ...

Alias: Hedgehog grain aphid is a relatively new pest to North America. From a distance it looks similar in size and shape to the pear-shaped body of a green pea aphid except it is dark-brown. On ...

Most people have done it. You see something small and wiggly on a plant, your brain says “bug = bad,” and your hand is ...

Alias: The cereal grass aphid has been in the United States for several decades, but it mostly stayed in place in remote areas of Oregon. Unfortunately, it is now showing signs of spreading east, the ...

New Yorkers are buzzing over the latest batch of bugs to plague the city — but entomology experts say the tiny critters pose no health risk, and no one should worry. Most people think the little bugs ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. If you’re the squeamish type, take a deep breath ...