Attract aphids’ natural predators with mint, fennel, dill, yarrow and dandelions. These predators include ladybugs, ...

Here, Samantha shares six steps to reducing the risk of an aphid infestation… Aphids, along with their eggs and larvae, can hibernate in plant debris, waiting for warmer temperatures to re-emerge and ...

Aphid larvae have four juvenile stages, called instars, through which they develop to become adults; newborn aphids are in the first instar. By Day 2, some first instar aphids have grown enough to ...

Specifically brought from Australia for pest control, the mealybug destroyer is harmless to plants and humans, but as a larvae and adult, eats aphids and other soft shelled pest insects ...

Some insects will avoid the cold altogether and migrate to warmer temperatures such as the monarch butterfly, armyworms, ...

Aphids inflict their damage by sucking on plant ... applied to the soil also reduces access to overwatered soil. Control larvae by applying Bacillus thuringiensis, subspecies israelensis, strain ...

Most species of parasitoids discriminate between unparasitized and previously parasitized hosts and avoid depositing eggs in the latter. Aphid parasitoids use an external pheromone-like substance to ...