Effective solutions to the vast amounts of plastic waste we produce are still being sought, and four innocuous insects that can eat plastic might play a part.

The best time to spray the oil onto your affected trees is when the scale insects are in their crawler stage, which is soon after they hatch. This period differs with tree species. For example ...

The Cooperative Extension Plant Clinic can provide information on scale insect control, urban tree care, and other ...

Artificial lights at night are causing serious disruption to these insect night shift workers. That’s a problem for everyone.

In Australia, an introduced species of cactus ... During the 1800’s, cottony-cushion scale – a scale insect – was accidently introduced into California citrus groves from Australia (Grafton ...

Scale insects are small bugs related to greenflies ... and books (more than 6,000 published pages), and described 686 species and 95 genera new to science. He co-authored works with more than ...