Dear Dan, I wrote in a while ago to see if you would do an article on root aphids but haven’t seen one. I believe these are more common than people think, especially soil growers. They hide on the ...

The yellow meadow ant, Lasius flavus, farms root aphids for sugar (honeydew) and nitrogen (protein). In turn these species of aphids have developed distinctive traits never found in free living ...

The “gnats” that appear about this time of year are actually an aphid that goes by several names: conifer root aphid, blue ash aphid, Oregon ash aphid or smoky-winged ash aphid. What you see in the ...

Herbivorous insects, especially aphids, often form close ecological relationships with the plants upon which they feed. One consequence of this is that many species are structured into distinct ...

Ants farm aphids. They care for them, offer protection, and literally "farm" them – much like humans farm their livestock. Picture ants wearing the frayed straw hat, dirty blue dungarees or coveralls, ...

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 ...

If you’ve grown a peach, apple, or cherry tree for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly met the enemy. Tiny, ...

I bought some fresh mugwort from a wet market and picked a few healthy stalks to root in water. Five days later, I introduced the rooted mugworts to an aeroponic system. I used rock wool as the ...

The yellow meadow ant, Lasius flavus, farms root aphids for sugar (honeydew) and nitrogen (protein). In turn these species of aphids have developed distinctive traits never found in free living ...