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Stomacoccus platani
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Copyright © 2016
James Bailey
Yellow guys -
Stomacoccus platani
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Agoura Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 12, 2016
This particular sycamore tree is covered in these somewhat large yellow springtails(?). Some of them have orange (males?) hitching a ride on the back.
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Contributed by
James Bailey
on 13 April, 2016 - 12:00am
Last updated 17 October, 2016 - 9:00pm
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James Bailey
, 16 April, 2016 - 9:07pm
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Turns out these are the adults
of the scale insect I've been observing all this time!
See
http://ucanr.edu/sites/sjcoeh/files/77101.pdf
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James Bailey
, 16 April, 2016 - 9:08pm
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Fascinating!
I didn't realize that these had an adult crawling stage, but it makes perfect sense. Great job in figuring this one out.
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Chris Mallory
, 16 April, 2016 - 9:33pm
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Interesting...
thanks guys. There are lots of scale insects on these trees but these are much bigger, don't think they are related.
They look similar to these
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1064259/bgimage
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James Bailey
, 13 April, 2016 - 10:52am
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Agreed. Not Collembola.
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 13 April, 2016 - 5:05am
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Looks like Sternorrhyncha to me
maybe a scale crawler? Antennae not right for springtail, too many segments I think. Let's see what others have to say.
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Chris Mallory
, 13 April, 2016 - 12:23am
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