Q. I was wondering what you can tell me about cottony maple scale. I have it on my silver maple tree. I am finding out that there is a large outbreak in northern Illinois this year. Many people are ...

Michigan State University entomologist Dave Smitley predicted in May an outbreak of cottony maple scale in Midland, Saginaw and other localities that have mosquito spray programs. Mosquito spray ...

For whatever reason, my office has seen an explosion of homeowners bringing in branches covered in cottony maple scale. I believe 100% of the cases to be on either silver maple (Acer saccharinum) or ...

An interesting pest is infesting trees in the area, covering them with tiny puffs of cotton. It is cottony maple scale. This insect creates egg sacks that look like quarter- to half-inch-long balls of ...

Q: Every June for several years now, our two Norway maples have a soft, sticky white "critter" that looks like a wrinkled snow flake and milky stick substance. This lasts a couple of weeks. This year ...

Area maple trees have suffered the thirsty ravages of cottony maple scale for years, but this summer the insects are particularly bothersome. The small insects, most noticeable by their cottonlike egg ...

Alias: Cottony maple scale. This is the most un-bug-like insect you will come across. Quite often it is mistaken as some sort of fungus or scab that grows on the side of a plant. The female nymphs of ...

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 this ...

Scale insects do the best job of not resembling any insect or bug in Pandora’s box. They violate nearly every rule of entomology. They don’t have three obvious body segments, you couldn’t find legs on ...

Q. I have a slimy green plant in the gravel of my driveway. It is spreading. What is it? — Beverly in Shandakan A. It is liverwort. It is estimated that there are 10,000 species of liverworts. Some of ...

If you have noticed something that looks like popcorn on the leaves of your tree, you may have a case of Cottony Maple Scale. This insect is brown and flat with an oval body. They usually go unnoticed ...

Can you tell me what these little creatures are? They have completely taken over my backyard, on my fences, on my pool cover and on my shed. They are about 1/4-inch long, and some are orange and white ...