With our outdoor plants now properly covered with a blanket of snow, it’s time to turn our attention to our houseplants and ...

Because they're so tiny and hard to detect, scale insects are best banished from your trees by introducing their natural ...

Researchers Discover Red Cloth Dyed With Insects From a Cave, Shed Light on Advanced Intellect of Ancient Civilization Archaeologists excavated two wool textile shards from the Cave of Skulls in the ...

The Cooperative Extension Plant Clinic can provide information on scale insect control, urban tree care, and other ...

3), and can be up to 2 mm wide with a central pale ring. The test is not attached to the body and can be peeled back to reveal the soft-bodied scale insect (Fig.3). Spends winter as a female beneath ...

White, wooly adults (figure 1, 2) with pink to purple eggs underneath (Figure 3) can be seen in late spring. The first generation was observed in late May through early June using a hand lens or ...

Is there an effective treatment for crape myrtle bark scale? It’s not as bad as it was a few years ago, but I’d like to eliminate it.

Fungus gnats and scale insects are two pesky insects commonly found on plants this time of year. K-State horticulture expert Cynthia Domenghini outlines what to look for.

Other insects provide humans with material goods such as honey (honey bees), silk (silk moths), dyes and shellac (scale insects), and tannic acid and inks (insect galls). Without insects ...

The gloomy scale is a species of armored scale insect (family Diaspidae) that infests many trees but is most associated with maples. These gray-brown insects attach themselves to bark and use ...