With our outdoor plants now properly covered with a blanket of snow, it’s time to turn our attention to our houseplants and ...

Is there an effective treatment for crape myrtle bark scale? It’s not as bad as it was a few years ago, but I’d like to eliminate it.

As the warmer weather becomes a breeding ground for all kinds of leaf-destroying bugs, plant-owners should be warned to make ...

Your description sounds like you have a problem with whiteflies and a population big enough that it requires treatment. Despite their name, they resemble moths more than flies and are a common ...

Colonies resemble blobs of sticky cotton wool and may be accompanied by sooty mould. Glasshouse mealybugs suck the sap of their host plants which weakens and can kill them. The colonies of mealybug ...

Greenfly also excrete a surplus sugar solution, known as honeydew. This creates sticky patches on plants and is frequently colonised by a fungus called sooty mould that turns the foliage black. While ...

One of his children has a health condition which means it is dangerous for them to be around mould. "We have been promised things will get done, but they never did. I feel like it's not going to ...

Auditor General Denise Hanrahan gave Memorial University a failing grade in its latest facilities management report, released Tuesday. (Danny Arsenault/ CBC) Memorial University's campus renewal ...

Unlike some other diseases that harm a tree's ability to survive, sooty mold isn't directly responsible for any damage; it simply covers parts of the plant. However, its presence can cause other ...

The bad news, however, is that so far, provincial specialists have seen this fungi growing on plants that ... in a black mould or soot, there’s good news and bad news. According to specialists on the ...

But there's a mould-busting plant that will help keep those ugly patches at bay.Credit: Getty Images - Getty That's why homeowners turn to every mould-busting hack they can find to banish the stuff.