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Ceroplastes - Ceroplastes cirripediformis - female
Copyright © 2007 Virginia Malone

Ceroplastes - Ceroplastes cirripediformis - Female
Hondo, Medina County, Texas, USA
January 9, 2007
Size: about 3 mm long
Found of twig of pomegranate.

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Ceroplastes - Ceroplastes cirripediformis - female Ceroplastes - Ceroplastes cirripediformis - female Ceroplastes - Ceroplastes cirripediformis - female
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Contributed by Virginia Malone on 12 January, 2007 - 2:43pm
Last updated 19 February, 2007 - 3:39pm

barnacle scale
It's on my Lady Margaret passion vine. How do I get rid of it?
… Sharon, 24 September, 2007 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Soft Scale Insects.
… john and jane balaban, 19 February, 2007 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

reminds us of a scale insect
such as Barnacle Scale - Ceroplastes cirripediformis, see
… john and jane balaban, 12 January, 2007 - 3:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Scale
In addition to your photo which is a match, I checked and found another picture of Ceroplastes cirripediformis at the U.S. National Scale Insect Photographic Collection.

Thanks,

VA
… Virginia Malone, 12 January, 2007 - 4:56pm login or register to post comments

 
gravid female scale
is my guess.
… Jim McClarin, 12 January, 2007 - 4:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Gravid female scale insect
How can you tell it is female and gravid? Just curious.

Thanks,

VA
… Virginia Malone, 13 January, 2007 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

 
Only a gravid female
would swell up to such a comparatively enormous size, looking like some kind of stem gall. Most scale insects are flattened down onto the stem and consideably smaller.
… Jim McClarin, 13 January, 2007 - 12:59pm login or register to post comments

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