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

There are many species of scale insects, and they are found on many kinds of plants. Vines, cacti, ferns, fungi, pine trees, landscape trees, shrubs and houseplants can all have scale insects.

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

The life of the cottony cushion scale insect reads like something from the most ridiculous of tabloid newspapers. Dad leaves parasitic body parts in his own daughter, which produce sperm that ...

The scale insects appear as oval bumps along twigs and branches. The adults are fixed in place; scale insects only move once a year in the “crawler” stage when the eggs are recently hatched ...

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, ...

The approximately100-million-year-old "snapshot" from the Earth's history shows the six millimetre long tiny insect with a wax cocoon, which protected the eggs from predators and drying out plus ...

Scale insect problems are common this time of year throughout the Lowcountry. It is not surprising since this group of small immobile insects comprises over 18 genera, with thousands of species ...

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

If a houseplant is "leaking," you are most likely looking at an insect problem involving aphids, ... Scale insects causing 'sap,' not tree: Ask OSU Extension. Updated: Oct. 27, ...

Euonymus scale: Insects target plants in the Euonymus family. Yellow spots on the tops of leaves are an early sign of euonymus scale. Treatment: Spray trees in early to mid-June.