A: You are seeing the evidence of palm leaf skeletonizer ... The damage looks like a leaf skeleton once you wipe the crumbly material (frass) away. These caterpillars usually feed between the ...

The large palm-shaped leaves enable the plant to produce its ... the sap from foliage and leave behind a trail of small black ...

When a pest or adverse growing condition affects your crop, symptoms show up quickly; plants wilt and the large, palm-shaped leaves develop ... of the plant called frass. Prevention is often ...

The critters typically defecate in the crevasses where the leaves meet the stalk, the researchers said. Scientists studied the biochemical relationship between fall armyworm caterpillar frass and ...

As a new spear leaf arises on your palm, keep a vigilant eye out for any sign of scale as the frond unfurls. Any dead adult scales left behind won't fall off, the scale is dead, the waxy covering ...