If you find little white flying bugs that flutter off en masse when you move the plant, they’re likely whiteflies. Whiteflies feed with piercing-sucking mouthparts like aphids. Damage from a ...

Orchid s can develop infestations of pests like mites, whiteflies, aphids, and scale insects. Common diseases for this plant ...

Many phloem-feeding bugs (e.g., aphids), on the other hand, filter out protein as they consume massive amounts of protein-poor plant sap; the carbon-rich, sugary honeydew that these insects ...

Garlic planted among roses will ward off aphids. Plant carrots and leeks together on the allotment or vegetable patch to protect against a number of pests. Leeks repel carrot fly and carrots repel ...

4. You can also plant onions, garlic and chives in your garden to help repel aphids. 5. Attract beneficial insects that will eat up thousands of aphids a day for you, by planting alyssum and borage.

To Spencer Campbell, plant clinic manager at the Morton ... the Asian beetles help control common agricultural pests, including insects known as aphids, according to Campbell.