Officers found the insects on pine bark inside a traveler's luggage during a routine baggage check.

Potentially destructive giant scale insects found at Detroit airport - ‘Pests like this can threaten America’s resources and wreak havoc among our most important economic sectors,’ one official said ...

Federal officials intercepted potentially destructive giant scale insects at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from pine bark carried by an Illinois-bound traveler.

Scale insects can infest and damage many of the plants we grow in our landscapes and indoors. They feed on the sap of plants, and a large enough population can weaken a plant, damage it or even kill ...

Scale insects are one of the most common and tenacious pest of ornamental plants. "Scales are tiny insects that appear rounded and flat with a waxy coating, like a little shield," says Alejandro ...

If you're not familiar with scale, you've probably seen it and thought it was a disease rather than an insect. When an infestation gets going, the insects can cover an entire branch and look like ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists intercepted a first-in-nation batch of potentially destructive ...