Garden staff are finding more scale insects and aphids than in past years. A major infestation of lecanium scale was recently found on a large planting of bald cypress at the Garden. The population of ...

(WPBN/WGTU)-- Lecanium scales are affecting a lot of oak and maple trees in Otsego, Crawford and Roscommon counties, the Michigan Department of Natural Resourses says. The DNR field offices have ...

We see it all in the Plant Clinic, and this summer we’ve been seeing a lot of Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae or crapemyrtle bark scale. This invasive insect from southeast Asia first appeared in the ...