Scale insects are most noticeable in late spring and summer, when they appear as whitish lumps up to ½-inch long on the branches. ... The mature insect lays eggs over the summer, ...

Magnolia scale spends the winter on one- or two-year-old twigs as tiny, dark-colored nymphs. As the temperatures warm in the ...

During the spring females swell, and they lay eggs during May. They produce large deposits of honeydew, a sugary fecal liquid, ... Figure 3: Calico Scale. United States National Collection of Scale ...

Gloomy Sale Insect: Spends winter as a female beneath protective coverings in bark, and in spring, resumes development by feeding via piercing-sucking mouthparts until she lays eggs underneath her ...

The 'scarlet worm' mentioned in the Bible is a scale insect, which lives in oak trees, with the main species of the ancient world being Kermes. The females and their eggs produce carminic acid ...

Magnolia scale spends the winter on one- or two-year-old twigs as tiny, dark-colored nymphs. As the temperatures warm in the spring, the scale insects begin to suck sap and molt once by early May.