Induced prey defenses can be costly. These costs have the potential to reduce prey survival or reproduction and, therefore, prey population growth. I estimated the potential for predators to suppress ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On your daily garden stroll to see what’s in bloom and how fast your tomatoes are growing, check plant foliage and health to see if pest insects are causing ...

Aphids are one pest that make every gardener sigh as they return continuously. They're extremely common and don't discriminate in the plants they attack – ornamentals, edibles, flowers, foliage, and ...

The yellow meadow ant, Lasius flavus, farms root aphids for sugar (honeydew) and nitrogen (protein). In turn these species of aphids have developed distinctive traits never found in free living ...

At this time of the year, plants are really beginning to grow. And nothing is more attractive to pests than that tender, juicy new growth. The new leaves are easy to puncture and full of sap and ...

Farmers and gardeners have introduced natural enemies of pests to control insect populations, an approach called biological control, for centuries. In a two-year project that started the summer of ...