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Coccoidea sp.
3 mm long - I'm assuming beetles.
Semi rural
Spotted on Jul 6, 2013
Submitted on Jul 7, 2013
3 Comments
Thank you Angel & Jemma!
Karen,a phenomenon very similar to this spotting
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/212...
Initially I thought it was a lady bug only to find out that it was a scale insect.The diff seems to be that I spotted it on a branch and it was accompanied by a sticky secretion too.In this scale insect,reproduction is via Parthenogenesis
Scale insect, Coccidae (Hemiptera)