Scale insects can infest and damage many of the plants we grow in our landscapes and indoors. They feed on the sap of plants, and a large enough population can weaken a plant, damage it or even kill ...

We investigated adaptation of the armored scale insect Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) to individual mulberry trees (Morus alba L.) in Maryland, USA. We tested local adaptation by ...

We enjoy magnolia trees for their beautiful early spring flowers, but in summer they sometimes get downright ugly. Gardeners may notice a fuzzy black coating on branches or a sticky glaze that ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 99, No. 4 (December 2016), pp. 813-815 (3 pages) We conducted a study to assess the potential differences in the abundances of hymenopteran parasitoids among cardinal ...

Williams: to any question that did not involve scale insects, his usual answer was ‘I’ll think about it’ Douglas Williams, the entomologist, who has died aged 101, was a pioneer in scale insect ...

We're in a sticky situation in western St. Charles. Cars, driveways, plants, lawn furniture - everything outdoors - is coated with something sticky. Just sap? Yes, and no. The substance raining from ...

MANY years ago I was an industrious collector of scale insects and mealy-bugs, especially in Jamaica. I found them in great abundance on cultivated plants, and obtained many species. When recently ...

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 ...

Spring beauty is fleeting, and so is the opportunity to stop scale insects that live on the bark of magnolia trees and suck their sap. “With scale insects, timing is everything,” said Sharon Yiesla, ...

My Japanese magnolias have this horrible disease that causes tan-colored growths that look like boils on the branches, and they attract flies. A black mildew is on the leaves, and the leaves ...