Found on side of sweet-gum tree in overgrown forest area. These guys come out twice a year, it seems. I have been finding them the last three years, always on the same kind of tree, stuck to the creeper vines rather than the tree trunks. From my investigation last year, these guys have legs somewhere under the waxy covering and are reddish-colored in the center area ventrally. They apparently are not immobile after settling in as I have noted they tend to move up or down after a couple to three days. This bunch come in herds of anywhere from 4 to as many as 7 on a tree, almost all of different sizes, generally on the same side of the tree. I have noted a few of 10+ mm longitudinally and they can come as small as 3 mm. I am assuming these are adult females, any correction appreciated. Note "cap peak" facing to the "front" of the scale. The anal cavity is always facing the ground, rather than higgledy-piggledy like other scales who have ants tending them. These guys are never tended by ants as far as I have observed.