Gardeners the world over dread the appearance of aphids on their plants. There are around 4,000 species of these sap-sucking insects and about 250 are pests that can wreak havoc on crops in a garden ...

As we get our gardens ready for the autumn months with some cleanup pruning, chances are high that we will uncover critters that have been taking refuge in overgrown foliage. Such is the case with a ...

Q: My wife wants to cut our 12-foot red twig dogwood practically to the ground, because only the twigs at the top of the shrub are colorful. I told her it would kill it. Am I right? A: Don’t bet a ...

Alias: Woolly apple aphids are most known for giving your apple tree a furry look on the main trunks and limbs. Adult woolly apple aphids are small tear dropped shaped insects that are covered in a ...

Woolly apple aphid colonies are often seen at the edges of old pruning cuts, but they can also cover the bark of younger branches. Consistent control efforts can help to keep the aphid populations ...

Some of the leaves on my serviceberry and hawthorn have an ugly black residue on them. When I looked more closely at the trees, I noticed some things that looked like little cotton balls here and ...

Question: What is causing this white webbing that looks like it’s oozing from old pruning cuts in apple trees? Answer: I had never seen anything like those images of white foamy icing rings around the ...

Woolly aphids often choose autumn to briefly adopt a fuzzy winged form, and this year’s hatch was particularly spectacular, arriving like a second bloom of cottonwood cotton or a plague of fairies.