Species like spotted lanternflies, zebra mussels and wild pigs are popping up around the commonwealth. Here's how to handle ...

A: The damage is actually caused by the larvae of a sawfly insect. They are commonly called rose slugs. The sawfly adult ...

Galls are outgrowths induced on plants by other organisms. In some instances, they form when parasitic insects like midges, moths and wasps release substances that prompt the plant to produce more ...

an army of jumping plant lice. These tiny insects — called Calophya Latiforceps — have the gall to go up against arguably the worst invasive weeds in Florida. They were discovered attacking ...

Galls are abnormal growths on a part of the plant. They can be caused by bacteria, insects, mites and fungi. They can be on any part of a plant and are the overgrowth of plant tissue in response ...

One of these galls is enlarged to show the larva ... Labandeira and his colleagues examined numerous insect damage types from 134 plant assemblages spanning the last 305 million years of Earth ...

Once you see galls, all the damage that’s going to happen ... sealing a fertile female and her eggs inside the plant tissue. Once the eggs hatch, the young insects or arachnids make their ...

Hackberry psyllids are responsible for creating nibble galls on the leaves of ... and Stephanitis spp.). These insects can be found on many landscape plants around your neighborhood.

While looking at my hackberry tree, the leaves were covered with this small round growth. Is it a disease, insect or just part of the tree? Will it kill my tree? How do I control it? Those small bumps ...

forming distinctive shapes and bumps on the plant surface known as galls. This, the researchers say, is one of the oldest documented occurrences of insect-inflicted gall damage in our records. "We're ...