• Generally, most pruning of trees and shrubs is best done in late winter. Spring-blooming shrubs should be pruned after ...

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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 insect (Fig.3). Spends winter as a female beneath ...

Williams: to any question that did not involve scale insects, his usual answer was ‘I’ll think about it’ ...

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 ...

A tree-killing pest native to Japan was identified in Upstate New York forests for the first time in 40 years, and conservationists want to know if you've seen it.

New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and ...

He identified 1,500-8,000 specimens per year, and to questions that did not involve scale insects, his answer was: ‘I’ll think about it’ Douglas Williams, the entomologist, who has died aged ...