Scale insects can infest and damage many of the plants we grow in our landscapes and indoors. They feed on the sap of plants, and a large enough population can weaken a plant, damage it or even kill ...

Williams: to any question that did not involve scale insects, his usual answer was ‘I’ll think about it’ Douglas Williams, the entomologist, who has died aged 101, was a pioneer in scale insect ...

Spots on the leaves of plants in the home landscape can be an indication of a hazardous condition for commonly used shrubs. Armored scale is a class of insect pest found on many plants used in Leon ...

Spring beauty is fleeting, and so is the opportunity to stop scale insects that live on the bark of magnolia trees and suck their sap. “With scale insects, timing is everything,” said Sharon Yiesla, ...

We enjoy magnolia trees for their beautiful early spring flowers, but in summer they sometimes get downright ugly. Gardeners may notice a fuzzy black coating on branches or a sticky glaze that ...

Hydrangea scale is a “sap sucking” insect, according to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is found on hydrangeas but can also feed on other woody plants including acer and prunus. The RHS said ...

Scientists at the University of Bonn, together with colleagues from China, UK and Poland, have described the oldest evidence of brood care in insects: it is in a female scale insect with her young ...

Maple trees in urban environments show signs of stress due to the urban heat island effect. Impervious surfaces like pavement retain heat and disrupt water absorption, stressing trees and making them ...

An odd-looking scale insect with strings of eggs that wrap around branches has been named as the first new garden pest of the year, plant experts have said. The cotton stringy scale - or takahashia ...

Mountains of food waste are being converted into a better use thanks to the country’s first commercial insect farm to make ...