How to Identify and Control Scale Insects in the Garden
Scale is an umbrella terminus used to describe most 8,000 varieties of wingless , sucking insect species in the order Hemiptera . One of the more common garden pests , these minute organisms feed in on the barque , fruit , and leaves of repeated trees and shrubs using their tiny , straw - similar mouthparts . Different species absorb dissimilar fluids from the plant , finally resulting in the slow depletion of critical plant nutrients ....