Q. What are these weird white things on my citrus trees? They don’t seem like they’re moving, but they sure do attract ants! Cottony cushion scale is a common pest of citrus, but can also infest other ...

Q: Last year, we bought a Meyer lemon and planted it in a large pot. We got more than 30 lemons off this little tree. I noticed a lot of sap near the base of the tree, then a bunch of furry little ...

If you're not familiar with scale, you've probably seen it and thought it was a disease rather than an insect. When an infestation gets going, the insects can cover an entire branch and look like ...

If you have noticed something that looks like popcorn on the leaves of your tree, you may have a case of Cottony Maple Scale. This insect is brown and flat with an oval body. They usually go unnoticed ...

Alias: Cottony maple scale. This is the most un-bug-like insect you will come across. Quite often it is mistaken as some sort of fungus or scab that grows on the side of a plant. The female nymphs of ...