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

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

Monitoring: Regularly inspect quarantined plants for mealybugs and treat them with an insecticide as needed. Recordkeeping: ...

and the plant’s growth becomes stunted. You might notice a sticky “honeydew” residue or sooty mold on affected plant leaves, ...

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 ...

In my experience, Anthurium plants can be affected by aphids, brown scales, thrips, and white mealybugs. I treat them by shooting pests off leaves with water or scrubbing lightly with a gentle ...

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 ...

Honeydew, a sugary excrement, can be seen on bark and leaves Sooty mold can follow honeydew and turn bark and leaves black and gray (Figure 2). It is not a pathogen but will discolor plants Crape ...