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 ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

There’s a trick to the little birds’ hardiness, though, and it’s in their diet. Golden-crowned kinglets are carnivores – though because they are so small, insectivore is probably a more accurate term; ...

Scale insects are most noticeable in late spring and summer, when they appear as whitish lumps up to ½-inch long on the branches. In severe infestations, entire branches may be coated with scale ...

A newly described wasp species, Sirenobethylus charybdis, had a tail with paddles and trigger hairs that scientists say was used to catch and parasitize insects. The scale bar is 0.5 millimeters.

The Brahminy blind snake is a small, non-poisonous snake from Southeast Asia that reproduces asexually. It mainly feeds on ant larvae, insect eggs, and earthworms. These snakes live underground ...

Some caterpillars are even predators. The larvae of the brown scale moth (Mataeomera coccophaga), for instance, eats scale insects. Moths and their larvae provide a fat and protein-rich food source ...

We don’t seem to hear as much about it these days, but crapemyrtle bark scale is still out there and still wreaking havoc on our crapemyrtles. Fortunately, the name on this one is exactly what ...

The first release in April 2021 was followed by further releases of the wasp – which lays eggs that develop inside the scale insect and killing it – over the next two years, some of which were ...

Insects that are most problematic include aphids, which can be green, white, brown or red in color, and cluster around new growth at the tips of stems, and around flowers and buds.

There was a hybrid magnolia that had a mild infestation of the insect. That is quite a statement in that there are over 40 species and hybrids on the campus. Paul said they don’t spray scale ...