“I have found a sticky residue on the leaves of some of my houseplants and what appears to be little bugs under some of the leaves. What can I do to get rid of this problem?” You most likely are ...

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 ...

It’s such a joy to see your houseplants, vegetable garden, flowers—or whatever greenery you have, no matter how small—thrive and bloom. But occasionally, you discover a nasty little surprise: What the ...

With our outdoor plants now properly covered with a blanket of snow, it’s time to turn our attention to our houseplants and the bugs that can infest them. Common houseplant pests include aphids, mealy ...

Sometimes called plant lice, they are one of the most common pests of indoor plants. Aphids easily are brought indoors on infested plants, attached to clothing or by wind blowing through an open ...

I wonder if cave people had houseplants. Probably not, because the screen door hadn't been invented yet to exclude aphids from attacking the amaryllis. I bet when they finished discovering fire and ...