ScientificName: Order Homoptera, family Coccidae and Diaspididae, many species

Description: Scale appears as small white or brown “shells” on the plants stem or leaves.

Habitat/Food: They will attack almost any ornamental or garden plant, sucking the juices from it.

Life Cycle: Incomplete metamorphosis (egg, nymph, adult).

Organic Control: Citrus and plant oil based products.

Interesting Fact: The females never leave the protection of their scale after forming it, but the adult males, which do not feed, develop a single pair of wings, leave the scale, and seek out the females.