scale insect

Key Words: Ferrisia dasylirii; Planococcus minor, rosette mealybug; coffee pests; scale insects; insect-plant interaction

Identification guide to species in the scale insect tribe Iceryini (Coccoidea: Monophlebidae).

Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in coffee roots of Norte de Santander and Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and description of a new species

This is a fungus that grows on the excretions of aphids and scale insects. You can clean it off with water, but really you want to prevent the pests that are feeding off your camellia.

Hodgson CJ (1994) The Scale Insect Family Coccidae: An Identification Manual to Genera.

Scale insect pests on ornamental plants in urban habitats in Turkey.

Apply fatty acid-based winter washes to dormant fruit trees to control overwintering eggs of aphid, apple sucker and scale insect.

This scale insect makes a choice between lemon and orange trees for which we can argue the following hypothesis:

Ovariole structure of cochineal scale insect, Dactylopius coccus.

The results have important implications for the management of the scale insect on coffee plantations.

The shell of the scale insect is difficult to penetrate with chemical sprays - so unless you have the time to pick off the pests, it's best to use a systemic insecticide.

He explained that Tolaat HaShani refers to the coccid (scale insect) used to produce the scarlet dye during the biblical and Second Temple periods, for both sacred and secular purposes.

AThe problem you have described is what's known as sooty mould, and it is a fungus which grows on the secretions of the scale insect, known as honey dew.