scale insect
Waxy tree pests
A scale insect is a small sap-sucking bug that attaches itself to plants and secretes a protective waxy covering, giving it a scale-like appearance.
Scale insects are common garden pests that damage plants by draining nutrients: The citrus trees were infested with scale insects.
They often appear as small bumps on stems and leaves.
- mealybugWaxy, sap-feeding plant pest
- aphidSap-sucking garden pest
- cochinealInsect-sourced red colorant
- lacInsect-derived resinous coating
- HemipteraTrue bug order
whitefly · carmine · shellac · waxy coating · crawlers · planthopper · parasitic wasps · prickly pear · spittlebug · biological control · neem oil · sap-sucking · plant sap · houseplant · ornamental plants · arthropod · sticky · parasitic
- farm pestsaphid, aphids, armyworm, boll weevil, corn borer
- pestsants, ant, bugs, cockroach, cockroaches
- crop pestsaphids, aphid, armyworm, beetles, cutworms
- fluid feedersaphid, mosquitoes, leeches, aphids, butterflies
- garden pestsaphids, aphid, caterpillars, spider mite, slugs
- orchard pestsaphids, apple maggot, borers, mites, fruit fly