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 ...

Almost every gardener discovers aphids on their plants at one time or another. Before I get into what they are and how to control them, here is the most interesting thing about them: Female aphids are ...

Pea aphids – a serious agricultural pest – have the ability to see and avoid a common, aphid-killing bacteria on plant leaves, according to a new Cornell study published Sept. 27 in Current Biology.

Key Points Fungal diseases may lead to holes, usually after an initial discoloration of leaf tissue.Spider mites, aphids, and ...

Q:I run the Children's Dance and Family Programs at the San Francisco Richmond District Y branch. My students, their parents and I have renovated our rooftop garden. It has been 1 1/2 years since we ...

Researchers have found they can control one of fruit growers' more severe pests, aphids, with a remarkably benign tool: flowers. The discovery is a boon for organic as well as conventional tree fruit ...

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

An assortment of aphids arrived in the Master Gardener office last week. Black aphids, green aphids and fuzzy white aphids; on a variety of plants – burning bush, tomato, wild cherry and river birch.