Checklist and faunistic analysis of scale insect pests(Hemiptera:Coccoidea) in Chinese Mainland
Any of numerous small, rounded, usually brightly colored beetles of the family Coccinellidae, often reddish with black spots and feeding primarily on insect pests, such as scale insects and aphids.
Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye.
A natural predator indigenous to India, Neodumetia sangawani, was found useful in controlling the Rhodes grass-scale insect that was devouring forage grass in many parts of the US.
The scale insect Paracerostegia kunmingensis Tang et Xie is an important pest that harms the deconative plants Pittosporum tobira.
minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects.
We do not know what they eat or why they also live with a wax scale insect.
