Here’s how to get rid of scale insects on indoor and outdoor plants. Scale insects are one of the most common and tenacious pest of ornamental plants. “Scales are tiny insects that appear rounded and ...

Scale insects are very unusual little critters, classified in the order Hemiptera, which also includes insects such as aphids, leafhoppers, and cicadas. Insects in this group all have sucking ...

Many gardeners had issues with magnolia scale last year, and it’s a pest to watch closely for in 2025. Skip to content. ... As it feeds, each crawler grows into a waxy, whitish lump.

The regulatory method of integrated pest management includes preventing entry and establishment of foreign pests.

Nor are the ants nibbling at the waxy scale – the scale insects tended by the ants, despite their name, have no scale, and some even lack the wax glands needed to produce it.

The most elaborate waxy decorations are found in sap-sucking insects like planthoppers, aphids, and scale insects. These bugs all have mouthparts a bit like a pointy straw; they insert it into a ...

Clusters of stationary white waxy scale insects and black sooty mold on crape myrtles are evidence of a deadly infestation. Vitex or chaste tree, which blooms in the summer, ...

Q I'd appreciate your opinion about this azalea bed. Should it recover from the low temperatures? It is so much more affected than our other azaleas that are in beds along fence lines. If they ...

Asian cycad scales are a tiny insect pest discovered on island 2003. They live under a white, waxy scale cover and suck the sap from the trees they attach to.

IN THE GARDEN: Tips about waxy scale on quince, planting a landscape in fall and mushrooms in Zoysia by Janet B. Carson | November 16, 2019 at 1:42 a.m.