AUSTIN (KXAN) — Fed up with the aphid excrement glazed over your car? Well, at least one couple living in Austin was. They decided to take the issue into their own hands — or the hands of nearly ...
Do you figure out where you’re going to park based on where the trees are that are dropping “sap” on your vehicle, leaving small drops of sticky substance that eventually get covered with dirt? This ...
Aphids are tiny soft-bodied pests that feed on a variety of plants, including vegetables, ornamentals, trees, shrubs, and houseplants. Because they reproduce quickly and have multiple generations per ...
LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Honeydew in the landscape is not the melon with the sweet green flesh and not the honey-do list you have at home. The honeydew that I’m getting calls about is the excrement of ...
Aphids are a plant pest that can quickly build up to large numbers. Based on questions I’ve had in May, this might be a good aphid year. Questions were related to aphids raining down from a pine tree, ...
Sometimes a quick check on Twitter can tell you whether an insect pest is showing up in farmers’ fields, ready to inflict damage on crops. In the last few days, that’s been true regarding mentions of ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — It’s the most annoying annual tradition in the Inland Northwest: picking ash aphids out of your teeth, hair, clothes and nose. The pesky bugs are back and could be sticking around for ...
Last week, I wrote about the explosion of large patch, brown patch, and Zoysia patch. Over Thanksgiving weekend, the conditions were perfect for the disease triangle and the disease flourished. If you ...
New Yorkers remain bugged over the recent swarm of tiny, winged insects that have infested the Big Apple. Although entomology experts insist the tiny aphids don’t pose any health risk, Gothamites are ...