Did you know that most gardens host at least a few aphids? On healthy plants, these common insects don't cause much harm, and beneficial insects, including ladybugs, help reduce their numbers. Aphids ...

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 ...

University of Georgia Woolly aphids on a silver maple leaf. The bugs are black, but secrete a fluffy, white wax to help them stay on the tree. They do little harm overall. Silver maple and other shade ...

Q. I recently found pink-colored pouches on a staghorn sumac bush in our garden. There are lots of them and they are attached to the bottom of the leaves. What are they? — Jana, Parksville A. Staghorn ...

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

Some of the leaves on my serviceberry and hawthorn have an ugly black residue on them. When I looked more closely at the trees, I noticed some things that looked like little cotton balls here and ...

The 50 shades of green in spring gardens trigger a biological chain reaction. It begins with the flush of new vegetative growth, which plants produce as the weather warms. The succulent shoots attract ...

A recent thorough cleaning of the deck, patio and concrete areas removed a patina of accumulated dirt. A few weeks later, they are again covered with a brown sticky sap. The overhanging walnut tree ...

Q. The leaves on many perennials and landscape plants are curling. What's going on? A. Insect pests and diseases are about three weeks behind schedule this season because of the unusually cool spring ...

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 (plant lice) and ants carry minibacteria that produce essential amino acids and vitamins. These minibacteria have very limited genetic material and many broken genes. Now, researchers have ...