SHREVEPORT, La. - Viburnum, a staple in many Louisiana landscapes, has been suffering from a common but alarming affliction.

In Wilmington one doesn’t have to look hard to find a stressed maple ... (Melanapsis tenebricosa). The gloomy scale is a species of armored scale insect (family Diaspidae) that infests many ...

They have tiny legs they use to crawl to a site on a tree, once establish a site, they will then start to produce the hard waxy covering ... and can be peeled back to reveal the soft-bodied scale ...