Inspect your garden for aphids every few days. “Things can get out of hand quickly if you’re not paying attention,” says ...

Black aphids are typically less than 1/8 inch long and range in color from dark green to black. Although their soft, pear-shaped bodies are tiny, these pests like to gather in groups.

Aphids are small, soft-bodied insects that can be green, yellow, brown, red, or black depending on the species and the plants they feed on. They are small, pear-shaped insects with long legs and ...

Aphids are small, soft-bodied, slow moving insects with piercing mouthparts that suck the sap out of plants. There are about 5000 different species. They are only about ¼ inch in size and can be ...

As I checked the foliage in our cherry trees several days ago, I found two clumps of new growth covered with what looked like splashed mud. As this foliage was ...

In the case of both aphids and Japanese beetles, spraying with a broad-spectrum insecticide can do more harm than good. These ...

Have you been outside recently and experienced a painful bite, only to find a barely visible, tiny black bug on your skin? The culprit was most likely the “insidious flower bug.” The bug is present ...

Tiny aphids becoming big problem for Indiana soybean farmers. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ... "In heavily infested plants, the leaves will begin turning black. If they turn black they can't produce the ...

Black aphids frequently infest fava bean plants, ... The trick is to attract them, and other aphid enemies such as syrphid flies, lacewings and tiny wasps that parasitize the aphids, ...

You can get ahead of the game by starting with a physical dispatching of aphids. Put on gloves and squish as many as you can. (Yes, I know; it’s truly an icky job, but it helps when someone does ...

There are small black bugs covering the stems of my zucchini plants. Ask Marianne: Ladybugs and their growing kids chow down on aphids Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...