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scale insect
small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering
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mealy bug, mealybug
scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees
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soft scale
an insect active in all stages
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wax insect
any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance
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armored scale
insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female
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Dactylopius coccus, cochineal, cochineal insect
Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
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Pseudococcus fragilis, citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug
destructive especially to citrus
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Comstock mealybug, Comstock's mealybug, Pseudococcus comstocki
Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States; pest on citrus and apple trees
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Planococcus citri, citrus mealybug
feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus
