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 ...
Though their life cycles differ, soybean aphids and bean leaf beetles can both pose significant threats to emerging soybeans due to the timing of their own emergence. Although the first bean leaf ...
Key Points Fungal diseases may lead to holes, usually after an initial discoloration of leaf tissue.Spider mites, aphids, and ...
It’s been a great spring this year. Lots of rain and cool temperatures that have fostered lush growth, lots of long-lasting flowers and a hoard of aphid infestations. The WSU Master Gardener Plant ...
The present study identified factors that enhanced host susceptibility towards Myzus persicae’s clonal proliferation in the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. A particular aphid inoculum, i.e. five ...
If you have pecan trees, you likely have a sticky coating on everything in the vicinity. It's called honeydew, and it is the excrement of yellow aphids who survive by sucking juice from pecan leaves ...
Aphids exude a sticky honeydew that coats leaves, making them sticky and shiny. The sticky leaves are often the first symptom gardeners may notice. Ants also may be attracted to the honeydew. In moist ...
Curled and crinkled leaves on a citrus tree may look like a problem, but the trouble is long gone. Aphids fed on those leaves when they were young and tender, but the damage is showing up now as the ...
You know all that sticky stuff on your car every morning when you park under the maple trees? Maybe you don't want to know. "The sticky substance is called honeydew," explained Peter Kolb, the Montana ...
Gardening season is starting to wind down, but there’s some things still do, and you may have questions. To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type it in and include the county where you ...