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, ...

Dogwood and lilac shrubs are attacked by an insect that is easy to overlook, even if you have thousands of them on your plant. These easy to see but hard to notice pests are scale insects. Scales look ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Williams: to any question that did not involve scale insects, his usual answer was ‘I’ll think about it’ Douglas Williams, the ...

We enjoy magnolia trees for their beautiful early spring flowers, but in summer they sometimes get downright ugly. Gardeners may notice a fuzzy black coating on branches or a sticky glaze that ...

Crape myrtles, an ornamental tree popular in landscapes throughout the state of Delaware, are prized for their beauty, exfoliating bark in shades of silver and cinnamon, and long-lasting flowers in a ...

“Scale” on woody ornamentals is among the most frequently reported and diagnosed pest problems at the Cooperative Extension Plant Clinic in New Hanover County. But what exactly is this issue and how ...

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 to mistake as part of the plant itself. But beneath ...

Q: The leaves on my houseplant are covered with a sticky sap. There are also small “bumps” on the stems. What is the problem? A: The houseplant may be infested with . These small, inconspicuous ...