Explore how aphids' rapid reproduction and resistance are changing pest control strategies, highlighting new research and challenges in agriculture.

Aphids are small, soft-bodied, slow moving insects with piercing mouthparts that suck the sap out of plants. There are about ...

For example, aphids living on the trees may excrete the ... but also produces an alkaloid itself that protects the trees from feeding damage. The research team has also shown in field studies ...

They now start feeding on apples or other hosts earlier in the year and can produce multiple generations on a host plant.

For example, aphids living on the trees may excrete the ... plants with and without the endophytic fungus and associated feeding experiments, they investigated in the field how Cladosporium ...