Have you gone out to your car parked under a large tree and noticed that it was coated with a clear or black sticky substance? Perhaps your deck or lawn area under a large shade tree is coated with ...

Magnolia scale is one of the largest soft scales found in the U.S. and feeds on the sap of magnolias, particularly star magnolia, lily magnolia, cucumber tree magnolia, and saucer magnolia. Tuliptree ...

Is your car or deck covered with a sticky, shiny, sap-like substance? Blame a bug called the tulip tree scale, which in the spring inserts its straw-like mouthpart into tender limbs on the state’s ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q • I have a tulip tree that has lost foliage on the lower half of the tree and looks like it's continuing up. The lower limbs ...

It’s as if the official trees of Indiana are raining sap. Tulip poplar trees, that is, and the culprit of that sticky mess is an insect named the tuliptree scale. That sticky stuff is not sap, but an ...

Q I have a very large tulip tree, probably 15 to 20 feet tall and very wide. For the past four years it has been dripping some sticky substance all over my driveway and the street. The asphalt is ...