Alias: Cottony maple scale. This is the most un-bug-like insect you will come across. Quite often it is mistaken as some sort of fungus or scab that grows on the side of a plant. The female nymphs of ...

If you have noticed something that looks like popcorn on the leaves of your tree, you may have a case of Cottony Maple Scale. This insect is brown and flat with an oval body. They usually go unnoticed ...

Pulvinaria scale is a broad term for any species of scale in, or formerly in, the genus Pulvinaria. This includes the cottony maple scale (formerly Pulvinaria innumerabilis, now Neopulvinaria ...

We have had many examples of this kind. The best one is perhaps the white fluted or cottony scale which once threatened the complete, speedy, and absolute extinction of the orangeand lemon-growing ...