Oystershell scale is a very secretive little insect that usually goes unnoticed. But despite it’s tiny size, this insect can cause significant damage in trees or shrubs. Some gardeners aren’t even ...

FLAGSTAFF — As flurries started to descend on the forest floor, a team of researchers examined a stand of sickly quaking aspen trees off U.S. Highway 180, just north of Flagstaff. To an untrained eye, ...

Oystershell scale is a very secretive little insect that usually goes unnoticed. But despite its tiny size, this insect can cause significant damage in trees or shrubs. Some gardeners aren’t even ...

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 ...

Several types of common scales can be seen in these photos from throughout Elkhart County. From left, cottony maple scale can be seen in this photo by Cody Stanger; magnolia scale can be seen in this ...

PHOENIX — Arizona's aspen trees are an iconic symbol of fall, drawing thousands of hikers and photographers to the high country every year. However, research out of Northern Arizona University ...

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 ...