Cotton Scale
? Pulvinaria sp
-37.9533, 145.24
Field Notes
Description:
A thick white cottony streak with a slightly raised brownish scale covered with cottony material, probably a female scale. On the same leaf and beside the white mass was seen a small (2mm) insect with a rounded abdomen - seen in pic #3. A white cottony web covered the base part of the leaf where the insect was spotted.
Habitat:
Acacia tree. This scale was spotted on a leaf.
Notes:
I am not sure what species of cotton scale this is but I spotted these on several of the leaves on this acacia tree. I would greatly appreciate any information on this.
Thanks to I.cook for the suggestion that the small insect in this spotting could be a psocopteran (which includes booklice, barklice & barkfly).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psocoptera
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