Drift injury = susceptible to aphids

Ubaldo Torres noticed something strange when he visited his cotton herbicide drift research plots in summer 2022. Every row of young cotton plants sprayed with auxin herbicides, such as dicamba and 2,4-D, was covered in thousands of tiny crawling yellow and black specks.Aphids had infested the injured plants, the then-Texas A&M University graduate student realized. And that infestation was spreading to neighboring rows. But the aphids seemed to completely avoid rows sprayed with certain othe