Normally, animals get their DNA from their parents. But a new study shows that they can also get genes from another species. In fact, animals can even take genes from creatures outside of the animal ...

The plant often attracts aphids, and the aphids can be an important food source for birds and for beneficial wasps.

As frustrating as aphids are, they're not difficult to remove from your plants. Plain soapy water does the trick, no harmful ...

A bacterium that can live symbiotically inside the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, is able to change the insect’s body color from red to green, a RIKEN-led team of molecular entomologists has found.

Symbiotic ants manipulate aphid reproduction rates to achieve a specific mix of green and red aphids, maintaining the inferior green aphids which produce the ants' favorite snack. Symbiotic ants ...

Aphids can be a gardener’s nightmare. But they may be an evolutionary biologist’s dream. Because they’re pioneers in the history of life on Earth. For one thing, they’re now the only known animals to ...

There’s a reason your parents kept after you to eat your carrots. The vegetables (and lots of others, too) supply carotenoids, compounds that are good for vision and overall health. Animals, humans ...

One of the worst effects of ant infestation doesn’t happen inside your house or on your picnic blanket. It takes place in farms and gardens, where many species of ants tend to herds of aphids. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images / Christophe Lehenaff Aphids are tiny soft-bodied pests that feed on a variety of plants, including vegetables, ...

Symbiotic ants manipulate aphid reproduction rates to achieve a specific mix of green and red aphids, maintaining the inferior green aphids which produce the ants' favorite snack. Ants and aphids ...