Ants farm aphids. It's weird yet fascinating. And a bit like a miniature horror movie. But it's a nightmare for gardeners.

The Oregon Department of Forestry is assessing damage done by the spruce aphid insect along the Oregon Coast after an outbreak in Yachats was discovered earlier in 2025. According to ODF, the spruce ...

Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...

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 ...

If you do it consecutively on aphids for a number of days, they will actually suffocate." Gardener reveals genius hack for fighting off aphids with common kitchen item: 'It really does work' first ...

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 ...

Normally, animals get their DNA from their parents. But a new study shows that they can also get genes from another species. In fact, animals can even take genes from creatures outside of the animal ...

Explore the fascinating social immune system of aphids and how they protect their galls using bodily fluids in surprising ways. If you’re a colony of aphids living in a gall, this is a real threat.

Answer: Looking at the sample you brought in, the leaf curl on your peach tree branches is pretty extreme, and when I turned over and uncurled the leaves I found a ton of chubby green aphids hiding ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract (1) Leaf age of sycamore, Acer pseudoplatanus, had a marked effect on the performance of the aphid, Drepanosiphum platanoidis. Aphids reared ...