Protect your houseplants and garden from these pests. Scale insects can be difficult to identify. At a first glance, they look like small bumps on the stems of leaves of your plants, making them easy ...

I got an email with some pictures a few years ago asking me about magnolia scale, which is a topic I have written about for a number of years. I feel confident the insect was magnolia scale. The ...

Researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Leiden University have engineered a biological barrier that protects plants from diseases and pests. It concerns a sticky substance that is ...

We enjoy magnolia trees for their beautiful early spring flowers, but in summer they sometimes get downright ugly. Gardeners may notice a fuzzy black coating on branches or a sticky glaze that ...

Many people have a potted citrus plant or two that they keep indoors during the winter and move outdoors for the summer. It may be one of those dwarf trees that produce full-sized fruit. Or it could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Williams: to any question that did not involve scale insects, his usual answer was ‘I’ll think about it’ Douglas Williams, the ...