Category Archives: Green Plants

What are aphids?

Aphids are tiny soft-bodied insects that such the juices of plants. During the summer, you may find the stems and leaves of you garden plants crowded with tiny pear-shaped insects called aphids.  Another name for them is “plant lice.” Aphids are among the most common insect pests of plants.  The aphid lives only to eat. Its mouth …

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Where does mold come from?

Mold is really a patch of tiny plants.  Tiny molds “seeds” called spores are carried away by currents of air.  When they land on a material they can use as food, the spores grow into new mold plants. If you leave a piece of damp bread in the kitchen, in a few days it will …

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