Experts recommend keeping an eye out for egg clusters and scraping them into buckets of soapy water. Officials issue warning ...

Native to Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, the beetle was identified in a valley oak in Novato on May 23, 2025. The insect was first detected in Napa County in 2019 and has since been ...

Home & Garden North Texas garden insects: How to get rid of caterpillar, aphid and mite pests By Neil Sperry Special to the Star-Telegram Updated May 30, 2025 11:51 AM ...

I had a major infestation of magnolia scale last year and a company came and treated the trees. Should I have them sprayed again this year? — Jeff Finnegan, Algonquin Many gardeners, as well as ...

Gloomy scale isn’t the only bug taking advantage of stressed urban trees. Helena Jolly, a research specialist in Frank’s lab, expects more pests to show similar patterns of infestation ...

Leaves are the stick bug’s main source of food. They particularly like the leaves on oak trees. The insects eat so much so quickly that they tend to completely “skeletonize” leaves.

Oak decline basically affects trees that are under stress. One of the most easily spotted symptoms are chlorosis or yellowing of the leaves. Chlorosis is when normally green leaves turn yellow due to ...

Oak gall ink is pretty simple to make. Soaking crushed galls yields a brown-colored liquid that can itself be used as ink, but for a nice dark black ink that stains the paper more permanently, you’ll ...

But oak gall midges are far from the only insect the itch mites feed upon. In 2007, the emergence of a particularly prolific brood of cicadas led to an outbreak of itch mites in the Chicago area.

The goldspotted oak borer is just 14 miles from the Santa Monica Mountains' 600,000 oak trees and threatens to devastate forests throughout California, harming wildlife and increasing fire risks.

Cicadas won't eat you, but you can eat them Ready or not, trillions of the five-eyed beasties are about to descend — or rather, emerge — upon Illinois.

The goldspotted oak borer, GSOB or Agrilus auroguttatus, is a 0.4-inch bullet-shaped beetle with six golden spots on its forewings, and it burrows its way into mature oak trees, cutting off a tree ...