Woolly aphids are more than a nuisance to disturb the peace of your yard, they're potentially dangerous for your trees and can spoil the fruit.

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 aphids are small insects that are covered in a white, fuzzy-looking wax. They feed on leaves and excrete “copious amounts of honeydew,” which can, in turn, cause black sooty mold to accumulate, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Woolly aphids may be to blame. These insects suck sap from healthy plants and leave a sticky substance behind. They can be tricky to get rid of because their waxy coating protects them from predators ...

The differences in how Washington apple growers battle pests in conventional and organic orchards may help Washington State University researchers decode the behavior of the woolly apple aphid.

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.

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 ...