Insects and mites can rapidly develop into high populations on indoor plants. Many are very small and go unnoticed until a ...

Q: My umbrella plant has small brown bumps on its leaves, there’s some clear sticky liquid on them, and some of the leaves ...

The white cotton-like masses are likely scale insects, a type of sap-sucking pest. If the infestation is minor, you can use a ...

Predator, parasite, and parasitoid insects provide top-down management of herbivore populations (Naylor & Ehrlich 1997). During the 1800’s, cottony-cushion scale – a scale insect – was ...

Scale insects, like peony scale, are one such pest. Their appearance makes it look as if there are gray or white cottony ...