Sentences with phrase «gloomy scale insect»
One factor is that researchers have found warmer temperatures increase the number of young produced by the gloomy scale insect — a significant tree pest — by 300 percent, which in turn leads to 200 times more adult gloomy scales on urban trees.
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«We'd been seeing higher numbers of plant - eating insects like the gloomy scale in cities, and now we know why,» says Adam Dale, a Ph.D. student at NC State and lead author of two papers describing the work.