Cicada season may be over, but another pest emerges right after. Here's how to prevent possible bites and rashes from oak ...

A new pest may emerge in Ohio as Brood XIV cicadas conclude their 17-year life cycle. Oak leaf itch mites can bite people, ...

A gall is an abnormal growth or swelling of a plant caused by hormones released from insects, mites, bacteria, or nematodes. They can appear on any part of the plant with vast variation in morphology, ...

Galls are abnormal growths and can be caused by a variety of different organisms, including insects and mites, and ...

Gall Mites. When your plant leaves, especially plants in the maple family, suddenly have strange growths appear out of nowhere in the spring, you can be sure a gall mite is to blame.

Any larvae in the gall are paralyzed with the mite's venom, which is strong enough to paralyze prey 166,000 times the mite's size, PennState Extension says.

Insects and mites can cause galls. These galls are often on the leaves and stems and usually look like growths or bumps that are not the same color as the rest of the leaf. Sometimes there is also ...

MEDFORD, Ore. – In a case of invader versus invader, a European insect spreading south in Oregon has given botanists and others hope of turning the tide against Scotch broom, ...

But oak gall midges are far from the only insect the itch mites feed upon. In 2007, the emergence of a particularly prolific brood of cicadas led to an outbreak of itch mites in the Chicago area.