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Cotton Scale

? Pulvinaria sp

Description:

A thick white cottony streak with a slightly raised brownish scale covered with cottony material, probably a female scale. On the same leaf and beside the white mass was seen a small (2mm) insect with a rounded abdomen - seen in pic #3. A white cottony web covered the base part of the leaf where the insect was spotted.

Habitat:

Acacia tree. This scale was spotted on a leaf.

Notes:

I am not sure what species of cotton scale this is but I spotted these on several of the leaves on this acacia tree. I would greatly appreciate any information on this. Thanks to I.cook for the suggestion that the small insect in this spotting could be a psocopteran (which includes booklice, barklice & barkfly). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psocoptera

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3 Comments

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 11 years ago

Thanks I.cook -will look further with your suggestion.

l.cook
l.cook 11 years ago

The small insect in pic #3 looks like a psocopteran, not a scale male.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

Strange - like a single swipe of a paint brush.

Leuba Ridgway
Spotted by
Leuba Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Nov 26, 2012
Submitted on Dec 10, 2012

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