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 small insects which feed on the stems, flowers and in some cases, the roots of plants, though they are most commonly found on the underside of leaves. These quarter-inch-long pests can be a ...

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 ...

Crape myrtles are commonly attacked by crape myrtle aphids. This often leads to a black fungus, called sooty mold, forming on leaves and branches in mid- to late summer. Control these insects by ...

Aphids massed on brand-new buds is the gardening version of a leaky tap: small, constant, maddening. You watch the tight green spirals get sticky. Ants show up like tiny bouncers. And there you are, ...

Q: I wish you would explain something to me. My back fence is covered with vines that seem to attract aphids to the new leaves. In the past I have sprayed with insecticide when it gets really bad, but ...

Aphids are small, soft-bodied, slow moving insects with piercing mouthparts that suck the sap out of plants. There are about 5000 different species. They are only about ¼ inch in size and can be any ...

Question: Our hibiscus plants have aphids in the tips of the shoots. How do we control them without affecting the bees? Answer: Curling leaves and stunted shoots are often signs aphids are sucking ...

I have significantly more aphids now than in the last couple of years. I assume it is because of the warm spring, but I am not sure what to do. I would be doing some serious garlic-pepper tea spraying ...

Q: Help! There are tons of white cottony bugs on the backs of the leaves on my tri-color beech tree. It is a small tree, but it has a great shape and beautiful pink and brown leaves, so I don't want ...

Q: After waiting for the “last storm” to materialize, I couldn’t stand it and decided to break out the garden hose and water my trees. While moving the hose from one tree to my piñon, I noticed quite ...