Imagine a world beneath your feet, teeming with tiny farmers and herders, where societies thrive on agriculture and animal ...

This monstrous-looking insect is an aphid feeding on a leaf. As the aphid feeds, it uses molecules in its saliva to alter the growth of the plant it’s feeding on to serve its own purposes. This ...

A crocodile-shaped lady beetle larva feed on a cluster of aphids. Aphids can be removed by squishing with our fingers or blasting with a jet of water. (Rita Perwich) These tiny, pear-shaped ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The paper B. Li et al., “A large genomic insertion containing a duplicated follistatin gene is linked to the pea aphid male wing dimorphism,” ...

In this study, we are proposing to test one chemical and two mechanical control strategies to reduce the spring populations of rosy apple aphids. The chemical strategies include autumn and spring oil ...