Cotton growers needing better control of tarnished plant bugs, thrips and other key pests this season have a new tool now available with the biotech trait ThryvOn Technology. The first-of-its-kind, ...

With the rise in temperatures also comes the increase of early-season insects in gardens and landscapes.

Q. How do I know if my plants have thrips? My oranges have strange scars on the rind, but I can’t see any bugs. Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long), slender insects that cause mostly cosmetic ...

Q: How do I know if my plants have thrips? My oranges have strange scars on the rind, but I can’t see any bugs. Thrips are tiny (around 1/20 inch long) slender insects that cause mostly cosmetic ...

Study finds sharp rise in resistance to key insecticides among Megalurothrips usitatus populations in Hainan, with evidence of cross-resistance between widely used spinosyn products A new study has ...

Onion growers and industry representatives inspect an onion field trial at Oregon State University's Malheur County experiment station July 8. The trial is trying to help growers reduce the number of ...

A couple of years ago, I noticed that my beautiful Sasanqua camellias were suddenly looking wretched. Their normally shiny green leaves were turning pale or silvery in places, and many were falling ...

It was bad enough that our region’s cold, wet spring affected our tomato plants’ ability to produce a normal crop. When an unusual insect problem arose on them as well, I began taking it personally.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thrips — tiny insects that pierce and suck fluids from tomatoes, grapes, strawberries and hundreds of other plant species — show altered feeding behavior when they're infected with ...

Every year, small insects infest my gardenia blooms and destroy them. I want to bring some in and display them but with these insects I can’t. Do you have a solution? These insects, thrips, are a ...