Ants farm aphids. It's weird yet fascinating. And a bit like a miniature horror movie. But it's a nightmare for gardeners.

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 ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is assessing damage done by the spruce aphid insect along the Oregon Coast after an outbreak in Yachats was discovered earlier in 2025. According to ODF, the spruce ...

If you do it consecutively on aphids for a number of days, they will actually suffocate." Gardener reveals genius hack for ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...

Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...

Aphids, as globally pervasive agricultural pests, have evolved intricate relationships with microbial symbionts that critically influence their interactions with host plants. These symbioses—often ...

Explore the fascinating social immune system of aphids and how they protect their galls using bodily fluids in surprising ways. If you’re a colony of aphids living in a gall, this is a real threat.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract (1) Leaf age of sycamore, Acer pseudoplatanus, had a marked effect on the performance of the aphid, Drepanosiphum platanoidis. Aphids reared ...

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