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Superfamily Coccoidea - Scales and Mealybugs

Soft Scale Insects · Armored Scale Insects · Felt Scales · Giant Scale Insects · Ensign Coccids

Family Coccidae - Soft Scale Insects
scales? Scale Soft Scale - Coccus hesperidum - female Scale Insect Soft Brown Scales (possibly Coccus hesperidum)? - female Soft Brown Scales (possibly Coccus hesperidum)? - female Scalebug - female Are these Ceroplastes sinensis (Chinese Wax Scales)? - Ceroplastes

Family Diaspididae - Armored Scale Insects
False Oleander Scale - Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli Euonymous Scale - Unaspis euonymi - female Lepidosaphes ulmi Scales ? Unknown - Aulacaspis yasumatsui Scale insect on Spartina patens scale - Aulacaspis yasumatsui Miniature fried eggs . . .

Family Eriococcidae - Felt Scales
Are these scale insects? - Gossyparia spuria European Elm Scale - Gossyparia spuria cocoon scale egg sac On Agave americana - Ovaticoccus agavium On Agave americana - Ovaticoccus agavium On Agave americana - Ovaticoccus agavium Gossyparia spuria 7.03.09 01 - Gossyparia spuria - female

Family Margarodidae - Giant Scale Insects
Cottony cushion scale - Icerya purchasi - female Cottony Cushion Scale? - Icerya purchasi Icerya purchasi Icerya purchasi White Partridge Pea bug - Crypticerya genistae Cottony Cushion Scale ?? - Icerya purchasi Parasitic insect attacking four Kaffir Lime trees I have - Icerya purchasi Scale on eucalyptus - Icerya purchasi

Family Ortheziidae - Ensign Coccids
Ensign Coccid Wooly aphid nymph? Ants tending scales or aphids? Ants tending scales or aphids? Ants tending scales or aphids? White Louse White Louse Ortheziidae - female


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