Lecanium scale attach themselves to the leaves and twigs of trees and feed on plant nutrients, causing significant damage.

White spots on your crepe myrtle tree may just look like light mold or lichen, but it may be a sign of a bigger issue that sinister and damaging.

WASHINGTON — Crape Myrtle trees are found all over the DMV. They boast beautiful blooms and are a staple of many landscapes. But little white critters, called bark scale, are threatening the ...

Many crape myrtle trees across the D.C. region are infested by a bug called bark scale, which leaves behind a black fungal infection. A cure is elusive.

The longer you let beech bark disease advance, the more lethal it becomes. Learn to spot scale disease quickly to protect your precious beech trees.

Rarely causing mortality in healthy trees, crapemyrtle bark scale can reduce growth and flowering of crape myrtles. Stressed, small, or containerized trees may be more vulnerable.

Crape myrtles, an ornamental tree popular in landscapes throughout the state of Delaware, are prized for their beauty, exfoliating bark in shades of silver and cinnamon, and long-lasting flowers in a ...

The best way to treat for crapemyrtle bark scale is to spray the shrub/tree with dormant oil on a day when it’s over 50 degrees outside but while the plant is still dormant.

For the most part, bark scale doesn’t kill crape myrtle trees, but it does cause problems. Here’s what experts have to say about treatment and prevention.

Using all of this small-scale tree data, the scientists used estimates of global tree surface area to come up with an approximate range for total bark-based methane uptake.

Gardeners notice the “black mold” on crape myrtles more than the bark scale or honeydew. To get rid of the mold, you have to get rid of the inscets that started it.

Crape myrtle bark scale, an invasive insect first spotted in Delaware in 2020, threatens the beauty of crape myrtles, an ornamental tree popular in landscapes throughout the state. The pest is now ...