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Icerya purchasi
Hairy or cottony white sac with ridges down the sides. The young scales are red with black legs as seen in the second image. The fourth image is of a broken egg sac with undeveloped scales. Last image shows the rather large scale problem we have.
Acacia tree in the backyard.
Spotted on Jan 12, 2013
Submitted on Jan 13, 2013
4 Comments
Thank you for the comments. They're definitely not a welcome site in the yard! I find them interesting but that's the nicest thing I can say about them :)
Eeeww... They look just... Yucky.
I just saw this in a lemon plant but I didn't see the red scales, nice series Cindy
Evil! These are so destructive!