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Scale insect

noun

Small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering.

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"Scale insect" Quotes from Famous Books

... become so this summer. "It is very curious, papa," said Jack, "that the flies, after they have laid their eggs, should die there; why do not they fly away? Do any other animals do the same?" Yes, pretty much so. Some of the female insects of the genus called Coccus, scale insect, or mealy bug, common on the stems of various trees, to which they sometimes do incredible mischief, lay their eggs and die over them, the dead bodies of the parents forming coverings for the young. ...

— Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children • W. Houghton

... is ari, the secretion of a scale insect, carteria mexcicana. In the months of July and August it is gathered from the branches of certain trees in the barrancas, rolled by hand into thick brown sticks, and thus preserved for the winter. A small portion ...

— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... with ruin the orchards of California. Professor C. V. Riley decided that the pest was a native of Australia. Mr. A. Hoebele observes in Australia that the pest is kept down by ladybirds. These are accordingly sent to California where they destroy the scale insect and restore prosperity among the fruit-growers. Another pest, of olive trees, is devoured by an imported ladybird of another species. This plan extended to Portugal and Egypt with success. Grasshoppers killed by a fungus cultivated ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer • Various