Researchers use invisible lasers, ghastly wasps and more trickery to protect orange groves Asian citrus psyllids transmit a disease that can ruin your oranges. Even worse, Argentine ants protect them ...

The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri, was first discovered in Florida in 2005 and in Puerto Rico in 2007. Since then it has caused billions of dollars' worth of damage by spreading a bacterium ...

Pesticide spraying for Asian citrus psyllids — a tiny louse that can carry the dreaded huanglongbing (HLB) bacteria — by the state started in the Carpinteria area this past week and is moving toward ...

California's $7 billion citrus industry may be at stake as psyllids continue to spread throughout the state, causing a deadly citrus tree disease. Asian Citrus Psyllids (Diaphorina Citri) is a ...

There’s good news and bad news in the ongoing fight to protect Santa Barbara citrus from the fatal huanglongbing (HLB) bacterial infection carried by the Asian citrus psyllid. Adult and nymph psyllids ...

The discovery in Santa Ana of a tiny insect that typically carries a tree-killing disease has brought California’s $1.6-billion citrus industry one step closer to an agricultural disaster, experts ...

This is an insect that appeared in New Zealand around 2006 and it makes a mess of the two main hosts: Tomatoes and Potatoes. Like most Psyllids, they are sapsuckers; taking the sweet sugars out of the ...

Asian citrus psyllids transmit a disease that can ruin your oranges. Even worse, Argentine ants protect them in exchange for the psyllids’ delicate ribbons of sugary poop, called honeydew. So, ...

New research shows that the Asian citrus psyllid, the vector of citrus greening disease, does not do well at high elevations, and that populations drop to zero at 600 meters or more above sea level.