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 ...

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

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

Scale insects are most noticeable in late spring and summer, when they appear as whitish lumps up to ½-inch long on the branches. ... The mature insect lays eggs over the summer, ...

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

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.

An egg-shape trend found among birds shows up in miniature with very protective bug parents. Elongated eggs fit more compactly under mom.

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 ...

The rare 3,800-year-old textile fragments that were dyed with insects of the species Kermes vermilio in antiquity. The fragments were found in 2016 in the Cave of Skulls in the Judaean Desert.

Larvae, which look like little alligators if you use your imagination, feed on aphids, soft-scale insects, mealybugs, spider mites, and other pests. University sources estimate that a lady beetle ...