DEAR JESSICA: We have a beautiful weeping cherry on our front lawn, but its leaves are dropping, brown and curled. My husband found some pinkish/reddish “gunk” on a part of the tree, scraped it off ...

The large, purplish-black, tiger bee fly (Xenox tigrinus) is half an inch or more in size, with distinct mottled patterns on its wings. Fearsome in appearance — it resembles a huge horsefly — the ...