In this study we focus on three aphid species (A.nerii, A. asclepiadis, M. asclepiadis) that colonize plants of the family Apocynaceae with varying degrees of host specialization 35,36. The broad ...

See that white, fuzzy stuff on your trees or shrubs? It is easy to confuse it with fungus or mold, but it could also be woolly aphids taking over your garden. Also known as blue fuzzy butts, these sap ...

Phylogenetic analysis of aphid species diversity combines morphological assessment with molecular data to reconstruct evolutionary relationships and reveal patterns of divergence within this ...

Aphids are one of the least welcome garden visitors. These small insects can cause substantial damage in agriculture, but how do they actually choose their host plants? What are the basic mechanisms ...

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 ...

Key Points Aphids damage plants by stunting growth, delaying flowers, and attracting ants that protect them.Non-chemical ...

Aphids are very common in most home gardens and they can be one of the peskiest pests that you can find in your vegetable garden. Aphids have tiny (adults are under a quarter inch), soft pear-shaped ...

Aphids. You might stumble across them in your backyard, snacking on your veggie patch, in fields and orchards where crops are grown and even along roadsides. But this group of sap-sucking bugs are ...

Andy Jensen just might be the only person in North America with his particular hobby. By day, Jensen is the go-between for farmers and researchers as manager of the Northwest Potato Research ...

Learn how ginger and lemongrass may help keep aphids away naturally while adding fragrance, beauty, and flavor to your garden ...

Fields of wheat are so associated with the U.S. that they’re featured in the song America the Beautiful as “amber waves of grain.” But those amber fields face a big threat: Russian wheat aphids. As ...

Scientists examined the biological variations in pea aphids, insects that reproduce frequently enough to evolve before our eyes, by tracing the prevalence of their protective endosymbiont, ...