Warm weather often means the emergence of pests —even on our houseplants. Summer is a crucial time to examine your indoor ...

Identifying Scale Insects. There are both soft and armored scales, with many species in each group, says Del-Pozo. Soft scales are about 1/10 to 1/4-inch long and typically are waxy, bright white ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

It’s a scale insect that attaches to the bark of a crapemyrtle. If you have a crapemyrtle in your landscape, now would be a good time to check on it to see if there are signs of this bark scale.

The vulnerable stage comes in late summer, when female scale insects give birth to live young. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 86°F. Tuesday, June 17th 2025 eNewspaper.

The government has failed to stop the red-striped soft scale insects (RSSI) from spreading and these have infested 2,027 ...

The Philippine Coconut Authority  has approved an organic solution developed by Chemrez Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of ...

The Philippine Coconut Authority has approved CropGuard, a locally developed organic pesticide, as a frontline solution against the devastating coconut scale insect or Cocolisap, according to a unit ...

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.