Scale insects are one of the most common and tenacious pest of ornamental plants. “Scales are tiny insects that appear ...

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 ...

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, ...

Many people have a potted citrus plant or two that they keep indoors during the winter and move outdoors for the summer. It may be one of those dwarf trees that produce full-sized fruit. Or it could ...

Scale insects are the most common group of insects to weaken ornamental trees and shrubs in Pitt County. Scales are piercing, sucking insect pests. They feed on sugary plant sap. The waste of these ...