Dear Dan, I wrote in a while ago to see if you would do an article on root aphids but haven’t seen one. I believe these are more common than people think, especially soil growers. They hide on the ...

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 ...

Ants farm aphids. They care for them, offer protection, and literally “farm” them – much like humans farm their livestock. Picture ants wearing the frayed straw hat, dirty blue dungarees or coveralls, ...

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

The “gnats” that appear about this time of year are actually an aphid that goes by several names: conifer root aphid, blue ash aphid, Oregon ash aphid or smoky-winged ash aphid. What you see in the ...

There's nothing more exciting than heading out in the garden in early spring and seeing fresh growth, signalling your plants are waking from dormancy. But, simply trusting they'll grow happy and ...

Herbivorous insects, especially aphids, often form close ecological relationships with the plants upon which they feed. One consequence of this is that many species are structured into distinct ...

I bought some fresh mugwort from a wet market and picked a few healthy stalks to root in water. Five days later, I introduced the rooted mugworts to an aeroponic system. I used rock wool as the ...

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 ...