Pests like aphids and spider mites can quickly ruin a garden, but early detection makes them easier to manage. LSU Ag explains how to catch and control these pests before they become a problem.

Unless you carefully inspect the leaves of a plant in your garden, you might not ever see the tiny little bugs known as ...

Are your garden plants stunted, shriveled, yellowing, or curling at the leaves, despite your best efforts to keep them alive? Check the undersides of the leaves, and you might find the culprit: large ...

Does it ever seem that you look at one of the plants in your garden and it’s totally fine, and then the next time you look at it, it’s covered with aphids? That could be because aphid populations can ...

Aphids can make their own carotenoids -- organic pigments that serve a variety of functions in animals, but until now, were believed to be produced only by bacteria, plants, and fungi. Pea aphids with ...