According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, aphids are "small, soft-bodied insects that feed by sucking the nutrient-rich liquids out of plants. In large numbers, they can weaken plants significantly, ...

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 ...

Aphids are tiny insects that suck the sap from a houseplant's leaves. Neem oil and diatomaceous earth are the best organic solutions to use to rid plants of aphids. Keeping a plant healthy and ...

As any horticulturalist knows, you cannot cultivate roses merely by plucking weeds and killing aphids. One must plant rose seeds. No matter how hospitable the garden is for the cultivation of roses, ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at dgill@agcenter.lsu.edu. I have some Japanese yew shrubs that are a couple of years old that I planted ...

If you have pecan trees, you likely have a sticky coating on everything in the vicinity. It's called honeydew, and it is the excrement of yellow aphids who survive by sucking juice from pecan leaves ...

QUESTION: A month or so back, I noticed half-inch black and orange bugs all over my orange butterfly weed plants (milkweed). The bugs didn't seem to bother the plants, but they seemed to lay tons of ...