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 ...

A tiny invasive insect that threatens cotton, okra and other crops could soon make its way into Virginia, according to ...

Photography by Soff Garavano Puw (@soff_garavano) It arrived in Florida in late 2024, and the whole ecosystem changed. An invasive insect from South Asia, the two-spot cotton leafhopper is now causing ...

The reed leafhopper (Pentastiridius leporinus) was originally a specialist, limited exclusively to reed grass as a food source. Within a few years, however, it developed into a dangerous pest that ...

A tiny insect is wreaking havoc on Europe’s sugar beet industry, not by biting plants, but by spreading bacteria that rob crops of their value. Once a specialist feeder, the reed leafhopper has ...

A new invasive insect, the two-spotted leafhopper, has been detected in South Carolina for the first time. The small, pale green insect damages crops like cotton and okra by chewing on the underside ...

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 ...

The insect was found in one corn field in Waseca County, where adults of the corn leafhopper were captured on yellow sticky traps placed on corn plants at the R5-R6 stage. The insect was found in one ...

LUCAN, Minn. - When John Deprez of Lucan checked his alfalfa field he saw lots of insects. The infestation prompted him to call Extension IPM specialist Bruce Potter at the University of Minnesota ...