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

Scale insects also cover themselves with waxy material that protects and hides the insect. +13. Dan Gill's Green Thumb: It isn't easy being green in hot, dry and buggy late summer.

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 ...

If your plants have scale insects, first figure out what kind they are and when the crawlers are going to be out; then treat them as soon as you can.

Scale insects come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors. The most common types are soft scales, armored scales and mealybugs. Soft scales are fairly large, 1/8 to 1/2 inch in diameter, and do ...

Scale insects are not terribly common in Southern Nevada. They are difficult to control because they live and feed under a protective “shell” they created.

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

For scale insects, their waste is in the form of a sticky excretion called “honeydew” that can quickly build up on leaves. Aphids, another common type of sap-feeding insect, ...

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

Tree-killing scale insects have adapted to the heat of urban areas, new research shows. The pests threaten to become a bigger problem as temperatures rise.

The crape myrtle bark scale, an invasive insect, is less well-known. First spotted in Delaware in 2020, the bug threatens the beauty of these beloved trees. The pest is now active in Sussex and Kent ...

Scale it back. Crape myrtle trees can be saved from spread of pesky bark scale. November 19, 2016 at 2:06 a.m. by JANET B. CARSON Special to the Democrat-Gazette ...