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

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

Fortunately, the name on this one is exactly what it is. 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 ...

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 ...

Scale insects’ fascinating natural history may ... like the moth flies and drain flies they’re related to, have a complete life cycle that includes a larval stage. The little grubs or maggots ...