As night falls over Australia’s forests, grasslands and backyards, the hidden world of nocturnal insects stirs to life.

Unlike other bugs, this invasive species isn’t killed off by the first frost and may be active again on warm winter days. On ...

The gloomy scale is a species of armored scale insect (family Diaspidae) that infests many trees but is most associated with maples. These gray-brown insects attach themselves to bark and use ...

The covering will be brown to black with a pale ring around it ( Fig ... 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 ...

Scale insects often look like tiny, brown, gray or white shells on the underside of leaves. They are about 1/16th- to one-eighth-inch in diameter. Both the larvae, which are mobile, and the ...