Despite global insect decline and biodiversity loss fueled by human activity, the frequency of leaf damage by insects among forest plants in recent history, post-1955, is more than twice that of ...

Fortunately for most gardeners, psyllids are very picky about what kind of plant they attack; they are “host-specific,” ...

"The direct link between richness of leaf-chewing insects and their feeding damage across host plants in two tropical forests validates the underlying assumptions of many paleobiological studies ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

Controlling soybean insects this fall makes spring management more effective. Learn how to combat soybean aphid and bean leaf ...

Be on the watch out for key signs that these four common pests have infected your house plants as they destroy leaves and ...

The researchers looked at two closely related trees: the sugar maple — whose leaf adorns the Canadian flag — and the black maple, a rare and protected species. Both trees are common in Quebec’s ...

Insect Leaf-Chewing Damage Tracks Herbivore Richness in Modern and Ancient Forests. PLoS ONE , 2014; 9 (5): e94950 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094950 Cite This Page : ...

Tiny insects, big damage By Calvin R. Finch / Special to the Express-News June 3, 2011 FINCH 0604 Spider Mites Speckled leaves on tomato plants indicate damage from spider mites.

One of the most recognizable summer garden problems is powdery mildew, a fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants.

These are very tiny, slender insects with fringed wings about 1/20 of an inch long. They like to feed on rapidly dividing plant cells like those in growing leaves, shoot tips and flower buds.

Observations of insects and their feeding marks on leaves in modern forests confirm indications from fossil leaf deposits that the diversity of chewing damage relates directly to diversity of the ...