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 ...

Above: lady beetles are being released into Purdue greenhouses as a biological control agent. Photo by Purdue University. Some insects are pests, but not all insects are bad. Overwhelmingly, the ...

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 ...

Entomologist Wizzie Brown advises residents to prepare for increased insect activity this spring, while emphasizing that the majority of insects found in the landscape are beneficial to the ...

These pests can quickly destroy your plants—here's how to remove them without using pesticides. If the leaves on your houseplants are suddenly yellowing and dropping, or if you've noticed ...

Scientists examined the biological variations in pea aphids, insects that reproduce frequently enough to evolve before our eyes, by tracing the prevalence of their protective endosymbiont, ...

The bottom line is that hoping a cold winter will mean fewer pests is wishful thinking. “Even if the cold kills off a lot of ...

Andy Jensen just might be the only person in North America with his particular hobby. By day, Jensen is the go-between for farmers and researchers as manager of the Northwest Potato Research ...

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 ...