Also known as oleander aphids, milkweed aphids are not native to North America; they originated in the Mediterranean region. In their native land, these aphids primarily fed on oleander plants, but in ...

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 ...

With the first day of summer just past (where does the time go?), landscape work and maintenance should be in full swing. In short, if you fertilize, prune, trim, water, treat for insects, etc., that ...

Aphids are tiny insects that suck the sap from a houseplant's leaves. Neem oil and diatomaceous earth are the best organic solutions to use to rid plants of aphids. Keeping a plant healthy and ...

DEAR NEIL: My husband made sure I read your column telling us never to top our crape myrtles. However, ours had aphids last summer, stopped growing and looks terrible. Short of digging it up, can we ...

MANKATO — The state’s soybean organization and the University of Minnesota are turning to farmers to try to find a way around the problem of soybean aphids very rapidly becoming resistant to ...