Scale insects

September 5th, 2008


Scale insects

Hot Pepper Wax Spray, 32 oz
Hot Pepper Wax Spray, 32 oz Made from hot cayenne peppers, will repel insects from fruit, flowers, houseplants and vegetables for up to 30 days.

Misc.:  General Insect Repellant, Ready To Spray, 1 qt.
Company: Bonide Products 
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Horticultural Oil Insect Spray
Horticultural Oil Insect Spray A concentrated oil that is mixed with water and then sprayed onto the leaves and bark of your tree to control a variety of insects including mites (such as spider mites), scale insects (such as magnolia scale and oystershell scale), galls, mealy bugs, codling moth, red spiders, whiteflies, aphids, leaf rollers, treehoppers and other insects. Used during the growing season or as a dormant spray.

Kitchen:  Concentrated oil is mixed with water then sprayed on your tree to control a variety of insects., Controls mites, scale insects, galls, mealy bugs, aphids and other insects., Horticultural Oil Insect Spray kills insects by blocking their pores and smothering them., 1 Pint (473.16mL) concentrate makes about 6-13 gallons of spray, enough to treat 2-3 large trees.
Company: Monterey Lawn & Garden Products 
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Hot Pepper Wax: Hose End RTS qt.
Hot Pepper Wax: Hose End RTS qt. Hot Pepper Wax is a combination of paraffin wax and hot pepper extract that will protect your plants. This product will also keep some animal pests at bay. Applied as a foliar spray, Hot Pepper Wax is safe and effective and dries to a flexible, transparent layer. The main ingredient is capsaicin, an extract from cayenne pepper. Use to effectively repel aphids, spider mites, thrips, leaf miners, whiteflies, lace bugs, leafhoppers and scale. Can be used on fruits, vegetables, citrus, root crops, legumes, indoor & outdoor ornamentals and grasses. Will not harm foliage, stems, buds, fruits and blooms.

:  General Insect Repellent, 1 qt.
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Green Lacewings: 1000 Eggs
Green Lacewings: 1000 Eggs After a few days Green Lacewing Eggs hatch and tiny larvae emerge which are also known as aphid lions because of their voracious appetites. There is no better beneficial insect known to consume vast quantities of eggs and the soft bodies of aphids, mealybugs, spider mites, leafhopper nymphs, caterpillar eggs, scales, thrips and whiteflies. The lacewing larvae attack the eggs of most pests and if the bodies are not to hard and fast moving, they will attack the adult pest stage as well. Be aware that beneficial insects only ship from our warehouse on Mondays and Tuesdays, and will only be shipped seven business days after the order is approved. Shipments usually take about three days to arrive to their destination.

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Armored Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Shrubs (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) (Comstock Book)
Armored Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Shrubs (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) (Comstock Book) Armored scale insects are among the most damaging and least understood of the pests that prey on forest trees, fruit and nut crops, landscape ornamentals, and greenhouse plants. The passage of U.S. plant quarantine laws was prompted by devastation caused by an armored scale in the nineteenth century, and the appearance of new invasive species remains a vital concern at ports of entry and for arborists, farmers, nursery workers, foresters, and gardeners everywhere.

This book provides the most comprehensive available information on the identification, field appearance, life history, and economic importance of the 110 economically important armored scale insects that are found in the United States. The authors have devised the first field key to economic armored scales, which will be invaluable to those trying to identify the pests and prevent the introduction of new exotics. (Most of the species covered are not native to the United States but broadly distributed across the globe.) The extensive color plates and highly detailed line drawings surpass anything available in other volumes on armored scale insects, and have not previously been published.

Especially noteworthy are the data on distribution, host plants, and the kinds of damage caused by armored scales. The species descriptions include scientific names, synonyms, common names, field characteristics, microscopic characters, affinities, host plants, distribution by state, life history, economic damage, and selected references.

Author: Douglass R. Miller, John A. Davidson
Hardcover:  456 pages
Company: Cornell University Press  (2005-12-21)
ISBN: 0801442796
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Checklist of the armored scales (Homoptera: Diaspididae) of the conterminous United States
Author: Sueo Nakahara
Unknown Binding:  110 pages
Company: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine  (1982)
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A list of South African scale insects (Homoptera: Coccoidea) in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) with information on their host plants ... / Universiteit van Stellenbosch. Serie A)
Author: J. H Giliomee
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Company: [University of Stellenbosch]  (1966)
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Green Lacewings: 4000 Eggs
Green Lacewings: 4000 Eggs After a few days these Green Lacewing Eggs hatch and tiny larvae emerge which are also known as aphid lions because of their voracious appetites. There is no better predator known to consume vast quantities of eggs and the soft bodies of aphids, mealybugs, spider mites, leafhopper nymphs, caterpillar eggs, scales, thrips and whiteflies. The lacewing larvae attack the eggs of most pests and if the bodies are not to hard and fast moving, they will attack the adult pest stage as well. Be aware that beneficial insects only ship from our warehouse on Mondays and Tuesdays, and will only be shipped seven business days after the order is approved. Shipments usually take about three days to arrive to their destination.

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Ladybugs: 4500 Count
Ladybugs: 4500 Count These beneficial ladybugs are the most popular and widely used beneficial insects for commercial and home use for pest control. Ladybugs are capable of consuming up to 50 to 60 aphids per day, but they will also eat a variety of other insects and larvae including: scales, mealy bugs, leaf hoppers, mites and various types of soft bodied insects. Be aware that beneficial insects only ship from our warehouse on Mondays and Tuesdays, and will only be shipped seven business days after the order is approved. Shipments usually take about three days to arrive to their destination.

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Scale Insects
Scale Insects Click on the thumbnail image for the larger photo. (more...)
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Scale Insects
SCALE INSECTS General Description Scale insects are divided into three groups: (1) armored scales, (2) soft scales, and (3) mealybugs. The armored and soft scales are one of the ... (more...)
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Scale Insects of Trees and Shrubs
Provides information on common scale insects found in Minnesota. Allows proper assessment of pest populations and their damage potential. Discusses control measures. (more...)

Scale Insects
Scale insects are small, immobile insects with no visible legs or antennae, pressed tightly against the plant on which they are feeding. (more...)
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Scale Insects
Scale Insects Contact: Eric Day, Manager, Insect Identification Laboratory ENTOMOLOGY PUBLICATION 444-224, August 1996 Scale Insects Scale insects are a peculiar group and look ... (more...)
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Scale insect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, generally classified as the superfamily Coccoidea. There are about 8,000 species of scale insects. (more...)

How to Control Scale Insects on Indoor Plants | eHow.com
How to Control Scale Insects on Indoor Plants. Scale insects suck the fluids from your plants' leaves and stems, robbing them of essential nutrients. Leaves wither and yellow and ... (more...)

ENY-323/MG005: Scale Insects and Mealybugs on Ornamental Plants
Information on these serious pests of ornamentals, their biology and behavior and the sooty mould they can cause, the detection of infestations and their control by cultural ... (more...)

Scale Insects Affecting Conifers
Several species of scale insects develop on conifers in Colorado, sometimes causing serious damage as they feed on plant sap. The most vulnerable stage of the scale insect's life ... (more...)

Scale Insects and Mealybugs - GreenMethods.com
Learn more about armored scale, soft scale, and mealybug pests ... Page Intro: One of the toughest pests to deal with. A physical toughness: scales are either armored or covered in ... (more...)

Resolved Question: Which one of the following represents two structures that are homologous?
A) the wing of a bat and the scales of a fish B) the wing of a bat and the flipper of a whale C) the antennae of an insect and the eyes of a bird D) the legs of a fly and the wings of a bird (more...)

Resolved Question: Do you feel at all bad when you take a bug or insects life. . . ..?
If so how bad on a scale of 1-10? btw, you are a killer in the bug or insect world. (more...)

Resolved Question: Portrait Made of Jewelry? Can it be Done?
One of my dream ideas is to paint a tree and grass on a wall. The tree would have hearts on it instead of leaves. Many of the hearts would be actual pieces of jewelry. The tree would have owls, birds, etc. on it, again many would be pieces of actual jewelry. The grass would also have actual pieces of jewelry on it for animals and insects running through it. Can this be done? Would matching the jewelry to the scale of the tree and the grass be a problem? (more...)

Resolved Question: Vegan/Vegetarians, how many of you are hung up on lungs?
I cannot speak for all vegans, but I can speak for myself. I asked a question for those Vegetarians who are mainly avoiding red meat/any meat for health reasons, yet some vegetarians still eat some fish in small amounts, or eggs and milk in small amounts. I asked where insects fall on the scale of acceptable, and got this response. "I would not eat insects. I don't eat anything that was once living and breathing. They have as much right to be alive as I do and I don't see the benefit of terminating that life in order for me to eat - especially when I have a lot of plant options to choose from. " Okay, obvioulsly, plants are alive. So if you say you will not eat anything that was once living, you are S.O.L and cannot eat ANY food EVER. Apparently, breathing is the key. In this type of definition what is considered breathing? Is it okay to eat animals without lungs, but eating animals with lungs is wrong? Are lungs where the 'animal spirit' or whatever gives animals their rights and emotions reside? What about animals that resperate without lungs? Frogs breath by absorbing oxygen through their skin, at least when they are underwater. Fish breath through gills, basically like a radiator but you flush water across it and oxygen is abosrbed. Insects have little holes in their torso that lets air in and it runs along a series of thin tubes and gets absorbed...really quite like gills. Plants breath throug little holes in their leaves, and the gasses diffuse passively through the plant. Yes, some animals like mammals, reptiles, and birds have lungs that actively pull in air and then difuse it into the bloodstream with lungs. But some primitive animals (like insects) passively let it into their system. That's what plants do too. Fish with their gills are also similar, but of course once they get it, they have systems to spread it around the body. If 'Alive and Breathing' is an important Vegetarian concept for determining what to eat, doesn't that put mammals, reptiles, and birds on the 'don't eat' side but plants, insects, and fish on the 'okay to eat' side? (more...)

Resolved Question: Can you figure out what nursery ryhmes these are?
1. Vintage bituminous sovereign. 2. Siblings who traversed an elevation. 3. Venerable lady occupying a domicile designed for pedal adornment. 4. Emaciated fellow who viewed with disdain any form of suet. 5. The feline pet and the Stradivarius. 6. Diminutive country singer with eclipsing orb. 7. Double Tyler Moore, exceedingly obstinate. 8. Auto accessory that is agile. 9. Embryo situated on a retaining edifice. 10. Ebony four-legged fabric-source speaks out. 11. Miniature muncher crouching at the intersection of two lateral surfaces. 12. Dairy product consumer demonstrating an unreasoning fear of arachnids. 13. Rodent scaling an antique timepiece. 14. Crowned head who proves her culinary skills with crusty sweet treats. 15. Small brass instrumentalist with a preference for indigo finery. 16. Undersized damsel who misplaced her often-shorn animals. 17. Female scholar followed persistently by a young member of the ovine family. 18. Masculine descendant of an Irish musician. 19. One of a famed trio who enjoyed devouring a member of the squash family. 20. Feather-brained boy who encountered an itinerant baker enroute to an exposition. 21. Masculine biped with a noticeable curvature of the spine. 22. Cowardly boy whose osculation produced sobbing young misses. 23. A trio of rural rodents afflicted with vision deficiency. 24. United Kingdom's historic transportation span in a state of collapse. 25. Secretive fellow who amassed a quarter-bushel of fiery condiments. 26. Residential contractor whose carelessness with grain storage precipitated a chain reaction. 27. Black and orange insect whose domicile was ignited during her absence. 28. Equestrian who mistakenly identified a bit of plumage as pasta. 29. Pint-sized boy whose tuneful vocalizing earned him an evening meal. 30. Discriminating farm fowl whose eggs were laid solely for the upper class. (I need help, what nursery ryhmes are these?) (more...)

Resolved Question: Fish quiz! First one to get 100% wins 10 points!?
Okay here is a fish quiz to test what you know...these were "invented" by fish man so I give him full credit but I wanted to try making one lol...All the answers are a specific fish... The first few questions are easy-ish: 1. People put me in bowls, when I really should be kept in a 20 gallon tank. What am I? 2. I am named after a USA coin and I am related to piranhas. What am I? 3. I am see-through, and my dorsal fin is so small it is nearly impossible to see. I have two long "whiskers" what am I? 4. I eat algae but stay only 2 inches long. I need to be in a well-established cycled tank, and do best in groups of 5 or more. I am NOT a chinese hillstream loach. What am I? 5. I can get nippy when not kept in a group. I am neither a characin nor a danio, and I am named after a cat. What am I? These questions are medium: 6. I love snails, but I am neither a loach nor a botia. I am only about an inch long, though I have the ability to rip any fish to shreds. What am I? 7. I am one of the few livebearers who are schooling fish and I can get to be nearly a foot long! I have a unique *adaptation* that allows me to look above and below the water at the same time, and I spend my time at the surface...waiting for a yummy insect to fly by...waiting...waiting (lol) What am I? 8. I can get to be very big...My name consists of two words. The first is something that is funny (usually.) The second word is something that is NOT funny (unless you like sharp objects) haha...What am I? 9. Am I a danio or a rasbora? A danio. Though I am sometimes called a rasbora. I have many white spots. These questions are harder: 10. I AM AMphibious. I AM not AN AMphibian. WhAT AM I? 11. I am one of the more uncommon anabantids (fish that breathe from the surface) and the pattern of my scales is similar to that of a leopard. 12. I am one of the few gouramis who are mouth-brooders. I require a LOW pH and hardness. What am I? 13.) I am not a devario but I am related. I have spots, and often orange fins. I am fish man?s favorite fish. What am I? CLUE: one of the above answers is a kind of goby... GOOD LUCK! so far "it's anonamoose" is winning... make that "it's the anonomoose" lol it's kinda hard to spell... make that "it's the anonomoose" lol it's kinda hard to spell... you both have four right so it's a tie so far...... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE GETTING NUMBER 10 WRONG SO HERE'S A HINT: IT'S A KIND OF GOBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Funnybroz3, so far you are in the lead but i think you cheated from Hellomynameis... so i don't know if I should give it to you or not... Make that: "Hello my name is..." fish man is in the lead with 6.5 points (I gave you 1/2 point for number 8 because the first word was right but not the second)...I wonder how you figured out number 13 :-) note: number 8 is NOT a loach...if you want me to get scientific on you it is in the order of GYMNOTIFORMES and NOT in the order of CYPRINIFORMES...!!....... OKay number 5 seems to be throwing people off...think FERAL cat..... fish man--okay I decided to count apple snail as correct because it works even though it wasn't what I was thinking.........so your score is 7.5 good job katelyn you tied with fish man you got 7.5 points (I counted puffer as only .5 points because "puffer" can be any of the many species of tetradontids but the puffer I was thinking of (remember, only 1 inch long!) is a specific kind that is pretty common in the aquarium trade... Since both you and fish man are tied I have to think of a way to give you both points lol (unless someone beats you) good job (more...)

Resolved Question: wanna know some random things you never needed to know?
Useless Facts For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects. The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television. The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h). If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long. Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life." A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!) The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. Many hamsters blink one eye at a time. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world. Starfish have no brain. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E". Bulls are color blind. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. Lip stick contains fish scales. The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms. Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown. Women blink twice as many times as men do. The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs. A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down. The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957. Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9. The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver. Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A. The life span of a taste bud is ten days. Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits. The billionth digit in Pi is 9. The first 100 numbers of Pi are: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884... 58209749445923078164062862089986280348... Click HERE for 99,999 digits of pi! A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes. Emus can't walk backwards. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of owls is called a parliament. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of bears is called a sleuth. 12 or more cows is called a flink. A baby oyster is called a spat. Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down. In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too! The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. Pinocchio was made of pine. The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs. A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will. (more...)

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Resolved Question: Do you believe in evolution?
1 - Where did the space for the universe come from? 2 - where did matter come from? 3 - Where did the laws of the universe come from? (Gravity, inertia, etc.) 4 - How did matter get so perfectly organized? 5 - Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing? 6 - When, where, why and how did life come from dead matter? 7 - When, where, why and how did life learn to reproduce itself? 8 - With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce? 9 - Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?) 10 - How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books) 11 - Is is possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor? 12 - Natural Selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep the species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occured if evolution were true? 13 - When, where, why and how did: a) single-celled plants become multi-celled (where are the two-and three-celled intermediates?), b) single-celled animals evolve?, c) fish change to amphibians?, d) amphibians change to reptiles?, e) reptiles change to birds? ( the lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc are all very different!) How did the intermediate forms live? 14 - When, where, why, how and from what did: a) whales evole?, b) sea horses evolve, c) bats evolve?, d) eyes evolve?, e) ears evolve?, f) hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc evolve? 15 - Which evolved first (how and how long did it work without the others): a)digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the bodies resistance to its own digestive juices (stomach, intestines, etc)? b) the drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? c) the lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? d) DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts? e) the termite or the flagella and its intestines that actually digest the cellulose? f) the plants or the insects that live on them pollonatte the plants? g) the bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply or muscles to move the bone? h) the nervous system , repair system or hormone system? i) the immune system or the need for it? By: Doctor Kent Hovind and he is offering $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. Folks, seriously, Hovind's tax issues are his burden and I pray that he gets his life back on track with God. The point of this question was to show people that there is no way to PROVE evolution. As much as God is a fairy tale to some, evolution is more so. Where are all of your intermediate links? Even Darwin himself admitted that this was a problem. And yes, I have read The Origin of Species and also, the Descent of Man. There is nothing proven in these books except that things change and adapt. That, friends, is not evolution. Also, to the folks who though I was being smug or that I am ignorant - God Bless you. (more...)

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