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An adult scale |
The sticky residue that I noticed before I noticed the bugs |
Scale suck the sap from plants |
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The sticky residue falls fiom the bugs to the leaves below |
| Scale on a branch, both adults and almost-adults | Young scale on the leaf | Sticky leaf, and on the branch are more scale |
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| These are two pictures of the same branch, covered in scale | ||
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In all I think I scraped 300 scale off this Mayer's Improved Lemon. Then I sprayed it with Safers Soap -a fatty acid pesticide, to smother leftover adults, juveniles, and eggs. It took two applications over a week to get rid of them all. |
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