This week on Backyard Farmer we return to the studio to focus on aphid control and summer turf tips. This week on Backyard Farmer we return to the studio to focus on aphid control and summer turf tips ...

Aphids are the bane of rose gardens. The tiny insects can stunt plant growth and devour flowers, but not if you prevent ...

Aphids flourish and spread because they reproduce at an almost unbelievable speed that shocks many gardeners. Did you know ...

They’re a menace. A total nightmare in ornamental and edible gardens alike. The bane of many gardener’s lives, these tiny pests wreak havoc, and can weaken or destroy huge numbers of crops. But don’t ...

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 ...

Aphids are very common in most home gardens and they can be one of the peskiest pests that you can find in your vegetable garden. Aphids have tiny (adults are under a quarter inch), soft pear-shaped ...

While the current weather is not conducive to gardening, fall will be here soon and there will be much to do then. Two common landscape maintenance tasks to consider and prepare for are fall turfgrass ...

Hoverfly larvae are small, tapered maggots that crawl over foliage and help kill insect pests. Black-and-yellow-striped adults resemble yellow jackets but are harmless to humans. This article is part ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A strong spray of water from your hose can safely knock aphids off pepper plants, but it may take a few rounds to fully clear them ...

Even experienced gardeners can have moments in the patch where they see something they have never seen before. In Millies patch, her blue corn crop (Zea mays cv.) developed a serious infestation of ...

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 ...

Question: Our hibiscus plants have aphids in the tips of the shoots. How do we control them without affecting the bees? Answer: Curling leaves and stunted shoots are often signs aphids are sucking ...