Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

For whatever reason, my office has seen an explosion of homeowners bringing in branches covered in cottony maple scale. I ...

Plants that attract these beneficial predators include vetch, alfalfa, corn, and crimson clover. Natives like elderberry, ...

Magnolia scale spends the winter on one- or two-year-old twigs as tiny, dark-colored nymphs. As the temperatures warm in the ...

During the spring females swell, and they lay eggs during May. They produce large deposits of honeydew, a sugary fecal liquid, ... Figure 3: Calico Scale. United States National Collection of Scale ...

What comes to mind when you think of beneficial insects in your yard? Observant gardeners will often name one of the ...

Gloomy Sale Insect: Spends winter as a female beneath protective coverings in bark, and in spring, resumes development by feeding via piercing-sucking mouthparts until she lays eggs underneath her ...

Magnolia scale spends the winter on one- or two-year-old twigs as tiny, dark-colored nymphs. As the temperatures warm in the spring, the scale insects begin to suck sap and molt once by early May.