No-fly zone

QUESTION: Some of the plants I brought in from outdoors seem to have tiny white flying bugs all around them, and are a nuisance. What are they? And what can I do about them?   These are likely whiteflies, and they often ride in on plants that spent summer outdoors. They’re more than a nuisance; [...]

Fall — and aphids — in the air

QUESTION: Sometimes we see white, wooly-looking bugs in the air and all over the hackberry trees in the fall. At the same time, there is a black coating of something on everything under the trees. What is this? These are Asian wooly hackberry aphids, which have been flying around Middle Tennessee for about a decade [...]