Oystershell scale is a very secretive little insect that usually goes unnoticed. But despite it’s tiny size, this insect can cause significant damage in trees or shrubs. Some gardeners aren’t even ...

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 ...

THERE are about 8 000 described species of scale insects around the world ranging in size from only one or two millimetres to more than five millimetres. Most species of scale insects are white in ...

Late fall and winter are the best times to find and control scale insects on trees and shrubs. Even then, excellent powers of observation are needed to recognize their protective structures. These ...

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There are many types of scale insects that potentially can become a pest on a number of landscape plants in North Florida. But the home gardener may not recognize these small-scale critters as insects ...

Is your floor or furniture feeling sticky these days? That could be a sign of an insect pest on your houseplants, one that you'd hardly notice otherwise.That sticky stuff is a sugary "honeydew" ...

N.S. Swathy, a postgraduate student of Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur, has developed an early detection and rapid response (EDRR) method against an invasive alien insect, which causes severe ...