This insect pest was first seen in the United States in 2004, at Dallas, and it moved north and east, spreading quickly across the South. In October 2013, the scale was confirmed in Germantown, Tenn.

Insect scales are pictured on evergreen euonymus leaves. The brown scale are females, which are fixed to the site, and the whites ones are males, which are mobile.

Beech scale disease is a two-part problem. The scale insect infestation creates conditions that allow fungal infection to develop, and these are the symptoms you'll observe as the disease advances.

Earlier this week, one of my neighbors told me that her Meyer lemon tree has had a bad infestation of scale insects for several years and that all of her attempts to eradicate the pests had failed.… ...

LSU Garden News: Scale insects just love crape myrtle trees. Here's how to get rid of them BY HEATHER KIRK-BALLARD | Contributing writer Aug 24, 2020 2 min to read ...

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Cottony scale insects are feeding on this maple branch. (Brian Kunkel, Bugwood.org) Q: I have a maple tree that's lost all of its leaves the past two summers. When I looked at the bare branches ...

The firm of ABC Tree Company was awarded the contract to begin the treatment of 562 oak trees infested with Lecanium Scale along Broad Street, Market Street and Riverfront Parkway. Work will began ...

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