Here are some problems I encountered from visitors to the Springs Preserve: Blotchy grape leaves: This is damage caused by grape leafhoppers. Brush leaves and listen for the insects to hit the leaves ...

The corn leafhopper, an invasive insect native to Mexico that has spread extensively and caused economic losses across the Americas, was identified in Minnesota for the first time this fall, according ...

Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice. But they can cause big damage to crops, including beans. In temperate areas, leafhoppers can cause ...

Feeding damage also shows as a white flecking on upper leaf surfaces, appearing early and continuing all season. It is characteristic of adult leafhopper feeding on herbs such as mint, lemon balm, ...

Global warming has brought Argentina’s corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter temperatures and is threatening harvests of the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University entomologist Dick Shade calls the potato leafhopper the most insidious pest an Indiana alfalfa field ever had. Private alfalfa breeder Mark McCaslin calls it ...

CORDOBA PROVINCE, Argentina (Reuters) - Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter ...

Q: Help! There are some little brownish insects appearing on the outside of my windows, on the ceiling of my porch and even inside my kitchen. They seem to be attracted to light. They fly, but they ...

Question: We bought a small vineyard and have noticed that the whitish-yellow speckles and blotches on our grapevine leaves are looking worse and worse. Barb B., Placitas Answer: I had the pleasure of ...

Covering a small patch of potatoes with insect mesh has highlighted the potential damage leafhopper species might be doing to the UK crop. Grown under the mesh, the processing variety Markies was ...