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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Residents in Mount Prospect have been wondering about a sticky black soot-like substance coating their outdoor surfaces.

A contractor hired by the Niles Department of Public Works is currently spraying parkway trees in an effort to prevent Cottony Maple Scale and the Honeylocust Plant bug infestations. Every spring, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...