Minnesota crops continued to make progress with the warm to hot conditions however topsoil and subsoil moisture levels continued to decline and were rated 66 percent and 56 percent very short or short ...

An inspection of the milkweed pod reveals aphids, and if you look closely, you will see one ant among them. Kat Bergeron Special to the Sun Herald The sap-sucking lifestyle of the tiny aphid should ...

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Small European bugs may be part of the takedown of an invasive plant that won't stop growing in Michigan. Researchers are looking for new ways to fight the garlic mustard plant, according to the ...

University of Minnesota Integrated Pest Management Specialist, Bruce Potter from Lamberton reports that Soybean Aphid numbers continue to increase in some areas. Fields at economic threshold ...

A pesky invasive plant creeping its way across Michigan forests has suddenly been faced with its natural insect enemy. Ecologists call it a bright spot in the war against invasive species in North ...

Aphids are important herbivores of both wild and cultivated plants. Plants rely on unique mechanisms of recognition, signalling and defence to cope with the specialized mode of phloem feeding by ...

Q:I planted fava beans in the fall, planning to eat the beans. Everything went great until I looked closely yesterday and saw the tips of many of the plants were covered with black aphids and many of ...

Chanie Kirschner is a writer, advice columnist, and educator who has covered topics ranging from parenting to fashion to sustainability. Aphids are tiny, soft-bodied sap-sucking insects that can be ...

At last some decent sunshine. This should help the haymakers and will fill the pods and ears of combinable crops as well as bulking up potatoes which have bred well. However, the higher temperatures ...

Dry warm weather in southern England is encouraging the build up of aphids in oilseed rape crops which could cause damage to pod-bearing stems. Some experts are seeing rapidly increasing colonies of ...

Garlic mustard, the invasive plant that's popping up everywhere from roadsides to back yards to forests, is the scourge of Michigan environmentalists, who trek out every spring to yank out the plants ...