Medical scientists are focusing their expertise on a pest that destroys soybeans. The goal is to develop an insecticide that is safe for humans but will kill the soybean aphid, a bug that's been ...

The sugarcane aphid was first found in sorghum in the United States in 2013, in a few fields in South Texas and Louisiana, but did not become a serious problem until 2015 when it infested hundreds of ...

Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...

FARGO, N.D. - Janet Knodel, North Dakota State University Extension Service entomologist, is a part of a new study to track incidence and intensity of soybean aphid resistance to pyrethroid ...

Though their life cycles differ, soybean aphids and bean leaf beetles can both pose significant threats to emerging soybeans due to the timing of their own emergence. Although the first bean leaf ...

Researchers are looking at a way to genetically modify soybeans to prevent damage from aphids. If successful, soybeans will carry in-plant protection from aphids, similar to the way genetically ...

Last year, 90% of Matthew Fitzgerald’s 450 acres of soybeans were infested with soybean aphids. An organic farmer in Hutchinson, Minnesota, Fitzgerald is one of many whose livelihoods have been ...

They’re tiny. They’re destructive. And they could be on the way to the Sunflower State again. Farmers are trying to get ready for the sugarcane aphid and the damage it can cause. It’s a pest that, as ...

Andy Jensen just might be the only person in North America with his particular hobby. By day, Jensen is the go-between for farmers and researchers as manager of the Northwest Potato Research ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is assessing damage done by the spruce aphid insect along the Oregon Coast after an outbreak in Yachats was discovered earlier in 2025. According to ODF, the spruce ...