Some 40 million years ago around the Baltic Sea coast, an insect-killing plant was busy trapping bugs. Tree sap turns table on bug trap plant - Los Angeles Times Amber holds leaves of oldest ...

If your fruit trees are attracting unwanted insects and pests, you should refrain from using glue traps. Here why -- and what ...

This youthful, crawling stage of the bug is easily captured when trees are “banded” with fly-paper-like traps using commercially available gum resins or even petroleum jelly.

Tree resin at the bottom of small pools is more of a hazard to insects than sap on the bark, suggests a study in Florida's swamp forests. ... where it forms a highly effective insect trap.

Traps are speeding up data-collection process, helping scientists learn whether treatments of trees are working ...

Q: My arborvitae are showing signs of disease. I have not changed their watering schedule. These trees are 12 to 15 feet tall and about 12 years old. One tree is especially bad with large areas ...

A tree a few away from the trap was covered in at least two dozen of the bugs. Doreen Hoover is a researcher for Rescue. She has been setting up and monitoring traps in the Pittsburgh area and has ...

So, they created a trap that could stop the bugs dead in their tracks, while also being environmentally-friendly. "The pheromone is fairly simple. It's a little cone inside the trap," said Prabhu.

With the change in the seasons comes a change for bugs too as they start to move inside, looking for warmth. You may have already noticed that the stink bugs are moving in. However, you can trap ...