Small insect with a big heart: 'Giving' aphids endangered by their selflessness Date: February 8, 2010 Source: University of Royal Holloway London ...

The soybean aphid, a leaf-attacking insect no larger than twice the size of a period ending a sentence, is reproducing at an alarming rate in fields across northern and east-central Indiana. Purdue ...

The soybean aphid, a pinhead-size pest that damages soybean plants by feeding on plant sap, entered the winter in a position to come back strong in 2006, said entomologist Christian Krupke. Farmers in ...

There are more than 4,400 different species of aphids, and about 250 cause plant problems in several ways. The most obvious is that they insert their sytlets, which are very much like hypodermic ...

When Winter squeezed the chemical trigger on a sugarcane aphid army, he didn’t know he was protecting bin-busting grain: the best sorghum crop of his life. Big Yields and Tiny Aphids in ...

Little Aphids Ride Big Ones to Safety When trouble lurks, juvenile aphids drop off of the plants they're eating and hitch a ride on bigger aphid escapees. By Jason G. Goldman ...

One big reason you see so many this year is because they are feasting on the explosion of aphids. So are lacewings, hover flies, midges, damsel and big-eyed bugs along with several beetles. And ...

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 ...