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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) » Coccus » Brown Soft Scale (Coccus hesperidum)
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Brown Soft Scales - Coccus hesperidum
Copyright © 2010 tom murray

Brown Soft Scales - Coccus hesperidum
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
July 5, 2004
Soft scales on an indoor Ficus tree.
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Contributed by tom murray on 27 December, 2010 - 7:32pm
Last updated 29 December, 2010 - 10:14pm

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Thanks Don. These do look like the brown soft scales, and they were on an indoor plant.
… tom murray, 29 December, 2010 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

Brown soft scale
immatures, is probable if an indoors plant (Ficus!).
… Donald S. Chandler, 29 December, 2010 - 9:40pm login or register to post comments

 
opinion on mistletoe scales?
I know these are tough. Anybody care to offer an opinion on these soft scales found on mistletoe (outside!), February, 2020 in North Carolina?


Larger ones are ~2 mm. I thought they were brown scales, but perhaps they are Parasaissetia nigra - black scale. We have none of those identified on BugGuide, but there is an image in Cranshaw, Garden Insects of North America (1).
… Cotinis, 13 November, 2020 - 1:44pm login or register to post comments

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