Using an optimized CRISPR/Cas9 workflow and DIPA-CRISPR, researchers identified Laccase2 as essential for hardening and darkening overwintering eggs in pea aphids. Knockout mutations left eggs fragile ...

Los Angeles reader Millicent Stoller wrote to our SoCal Garden Clinic saying she was trying to plant for monarch butterflies. Stoller said she was growing two milkweeds, but both had become inundated ...

To get rid of aphids, wash plants thoroughly and repeatedly throughout the fall. Selectively prune heavily infested branches of trees or shrubs. Keep your yard and garden clean of debris to reduce ...

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 green peach aphid, despite its name, is a pest of potatoes. Besides siphoning off juices from potato plants, the aphid can infect the plants with viruses that cause an estimated $100 million ...

They are among the most prolific and destructive pests in any garden. Aphids, mealybugs scale, and thrips all belong to different branches of the insect family tree, but have some attributes in common ...

(1) Most sycamore aphid eggs are laid in crevices in bark at distances greater than 50 cm from a terminal bud. (2) Differences in the timing of egg hatch from year to year and the pattern of egg hatch ...

In the war between parasite and host, the parasitic wasp and the pea aphid are locked in a battle for survival. New research shows that this cunning parasite sniffs out differences between protected ...

Question: I think my peach tree has aphids, but how can I be sure? A: Green peach aphids are the most common aphids on peach trees. They are small and can be difficult to detect, but their damage is ...