No one wants to bring home a bunch of bugs when they buy a Christmas tree, but should you be concerned about aphids? Our ...

Rock trumpets (Mandevilla macrosiphon) are beautiful flowers that don't enjoy cold or wind. Here are some companion plants to ...

Keeping bugs out of your garden can feel like a constant battle, especially if you want to avoid using harsh chemicals. Luckily, nature has its own ways of maintaining balance. By using natural ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Across East Texas, Asian Lady Beetles are causing problems for some homeowners. “They’ve spread, and they’ve come to help us in our home landscapes...but now they are making ...

This aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum) arrived in Britain in the 18th century and is now very common. Woolly aphids feed on apples and ornamentals that are closely related, such as crab apples, chaenomeles, ...

This study makes a valuable advance in our understanding of defensive symbionts in insects. It uses a meta-analysis to quantify the magnitude of change in host fitness components when symbionts are ...

Aphids' population density and environmental conditions influence the development and potential feeding of useful insects. The present study aimed to determine the community structure, relationships ...

Fera manages a network of yellow water traps. Compared to the suction trap network, these traps provide more localised (and more recent) information on which aphids are flying close to seed potato ...