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

While this layer might resemble fungus, what you're seeing is the accumulation of the scale insects (Cryptococcus fagisuga).

At a laboratory in Beijing, a nimble, tiny bionic robot effortlessly weaved through its surroundings. Finding itself in a ...

Because they're so tiny and hard to detect, scale insects are best banished from your trees by introducing their natural predators, maintaining your trees, and using horticultural oils.

2). Adult female covers are called tests (Fig. 3), and can be up to 2 mm wide with a central pale ring. The test is not attached to the body and can be peeled back to reveal the soft-bodied scale ...

The extract of cochineal tends to come up a lot. The cochineal bugs—a species of scale insect—are a centuries-old colorant. In the 19th century, chemists figured out how to make a synthetic ...

White, wooly adults (figure 1, 2) with pink to purple eggs underneath (Figure 3) can be seen in late spring. The first generation was observed in late May through early June using a hand lens or ...

Other insects provide humans with material goods such as honey (honey bees), silk (silk moths), dyes and shellac (scale insects), and tannic acid and inks (insect galls). Without insects ...

The use of artificial lights at night-time has been proposed as another driver of insect decline, although the scale remains unclear. The researchers say their study, published in Science Advances ...