Magnolia scale spends the winter on one- or two-year-old twigs as tiny, dark-colored nymphs. As the temperatures warm in the ...

Scale insects are most noticeable in late spring and summer, when they appear as whitish lumps up to ½-inch long on the branches. ... The mature insect lays eggs over the summer, ...

Magnolia scale spends the winter on one- or two-year-old twigs as tiny, dark-colored nymphs. As the temperatures warm in the spring, the scale insects begin to suck sap and molt once by early May.

Gloomy Sale Insect: Spends winter as a female beneath protective coverings in bark, and in spring, resumes development by feeding via piercing-sucking mouthparts until she lays eggs underneath her ...

This insect is commonly found in southern Delaware, and although it hasn’t been commonly encountered in New Castle County, it has been found in Pennsylvania. Females lay eggs which hatch sometime in ...

What comes to mind when you think of beneficial insects in your yard? Observant gardeners will often name one of the ...