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 ...

Spots on the leaves of plants in the home landscape can be an indication of a hazardous condition for commonly used shrubs. Armored scale is a class of insect pest found on many plants used in Leon ...

Garden staff are finding more scale insects and aphids than in past years. A major infestation of lecanium scale was recently found on a large planting of bald cypress at the Garden. The population of ...

Scrape the scales off manually. If you’re not too squeamish, you can scrape off individual scale insects with a small spoon, ...

Protect your houseplants and garden from these pests. Scale insects can be difficult to identify. At a first glance, they look like small bumps on the stems of leaves of your plants, making them easy ...

I think I diagnosed the white material on the bark of my crapemyrtle as scale. There’s also black stuff on the bark that won’t come off. What can I do? You have a few options, ranging from tolerance ...

Spring beauty is fleeting, and so is the opportunity to stop scale insects that live on the bark of magnolia trees and suck their sap. “With scale insects, timing is everything,” said Sharon Yiesla, ...