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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Scales and Mealybugs (Coccoidea) » Soft Scale Insects (Coccidae) » Wax Scales (Ceroplastes)
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Wax scales, Ceroplastes sp. - Ceroplastes - female
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Wax scales, Ceroplastes sp. - Ceroplastes - Female
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
November 11, 2021
Several of these large coccids were found on the stem of a sapling tree, surrounded by nymphs (the small yellow disks on the tree's bark) and being tended to by minuscule yellow ants (which I didn't notice until looking at the photos afterwards.

I sadly have no idea what the host plant was, but it was a sapling growing beneath a much larger tree of the same species.

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Wax scales, Ceroplastes sp. - Ceroplastes - female Wax scale host tree - Ceroplastes - female
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Contributed by Jonas Insinga on 3 December, 2021 - 2:25pm
Last updated 21 February, 2022 - 11:38pm

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