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 ...

Yellow sticky traps are a safe way to remove aphids. Purchase a couple of yellow sticky traps and place them near the plants.

This mainly works on hardy plants that can stand the jets ... A diluted solution of washing up liquid can kill aphids,' says ...

Before deciding how to kill aphids on your plants, you’ll need to decide whether killing them really is essential. These insects are pretty much a part of life for most gardeners, especially ...

Dr Christopher Teh, soil biologist and senior lecturer at Universiti Putra Malaysia answers gardening questions in Star2’s monthly gardening column, Ready, Set, Grow!, which is brought to you by ...

They spread by producing crawling young which find new areas to colonise then produce young. In July winged forms fly off to infest other plants. Breeding stops in autumn when immature aphids seek ...