Scientists at the University of Bonn, together with colleagues from China, UK and Poland, have described the oldest evidence of brood care in insects: it is in a female scale insect with her young ...

SHANGHAI, March 31 (UPI) --An ancient hunk of amber found in northern Myanmar has revealed a rare specimen -- an adult female scale insect. Even rarer, the female is carrying upwards of 60 eggs on her ...

Tea scale gets its name from the tea that we drink which is made from the related Camellia sinensis. Female scale insects are able to reproduce every one to two weeks, increasing the population ...