scale insect in English

noun
1
a small insect with a protective shieldlike scale. It spends most of its life attached by its mouth to a single plant, sometimes occurring in such large numbers that it becomes a serious pest.
In the late 1880s, for example, predaceous ladybird beetles imported from Australia had decimated the cottony-cushion scale insect that was consuming citrus crops in California.

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1. The Cochineal Bug is a scale insect that is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a beetle when in fact is a scale insect

2. Cottony Cushion Scale Insect A sample of Pittosporum was brought into the office to have an obvious issue identified

3. Whole Cochineal – Whole dried Cochineal is a scale insect that invades the nopal cactus and is about the size of a grain of Arborio rice with a silvery purple hue

4. Cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi) is a scale insect that feeds on many woody plants and is particularly fond of citrus.The mature insects lay white, squishy egg sacs containing hundreds of red eggs on twigs and branches