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.

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, ...

The female scale insects can lay between 60 to 250 eggs with these eggs overwintering under the hard shell to hatch sometime between April and May. The insect that emerges is very small and light ...

Females remain sessile under the cover, whereas males pupate and leave their covers as a tiny, pink, gnat-like insect with wings (Figure 5) to mate before dying. Females oviposit 100-300 eggs ...

The Philippine Coconut Authority  has approved an organic solution developed by Chemrez Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of ...

What comes to mind when you think of beneficial insects in your yard? Observant gardeners will often name one of the voracious predators of other insects. These include generalist predators such as ...

Larvae, which look like little alligators if you use your imagination, feed on aphids, soft-scale insects, mealybugs, spider mites, and other pests. University sources estimate that a lady beetle ...