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Barnacle Scale Insect

Ceroplastes cirripediformis

Photo by LivanEscudero
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Field Notes

Habitat:

on plants, gardens, shrubs.

Notes:

This has to be by far the most bizarre insect I've seen. For starters there is nothing recognisably insect about it, looking more like a fungus or something. This is a female. You can read more here: http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/aimg110.html

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