Field Notes

Read the tunnel, find its occupant, and decide how much the damage matters to the plant.

A tiny wasp can reach a leafminer hiding inside a leaf. Follow how it finds the pest, attacks it, and raises its young beside their food.

Judge Rhyzobius releases by living scale, new settlement, and access to colonies—not by old covers alone.

A practical guide to arrival, release placement, repeat decisions, and checking spray history before releasing Rhyzobius.

Compare Rhyzobius and Cryptolaemus by their prey, adult appearance, and very different larvae.

Separate armored scale from soft scale and plant tissue, then learn where crawlers fit into the infestation.

Learn how this small lady beetle finds armored scale, reaches beneath its covers, and raises another generation on the plant.

Some of the aphids have turned into little tan balloons. They are stuck to the leaf, they do not move, and they look considerably tidier than the rest of.

A container of aphid wasps may contain very few visible wasps. Much of the shipment can be mummified aphids, with the adults still developing inside. This.

When two tiny wasps both appear on a list of aphid controls, it is tempting to assume one is the upgraded version of the other. Aphidius matricariae is.

An aphid-infested plant may look as though it is sitting there accepting its fate. Chemically, it can be considerably less polite. Feeding can change the.

A ladybug eats an aphid. Aphidius colemani puts an egg inside one and uses it to make another wasp. Both are unpleasant developments for the aphid. For.