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Armored scale galls on pads of prickly pear - female
Copyright © 2014 Nancy Moran

Armored scale galls on pads of prickly pear - Female
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
July 14, 2014
Size: crawlers are about 0.2 mm
Two of the newly hatched crawlers are in the center.

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Contributed by Nancy Moran on 15 July, 2014 - 10:41am
Last updated 27 March, 2015 - 10:56pm

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