Sooty mold growing on honeydew on a tortoise scale infested pine. Armored scale insects are typically more damaging to their hosts than soft scales. Their feeding on branch tissues kills individual ...

2). Adult female covers are called tests (Fig. 3), and can be up to 2 mm wide with a central pale ring. The test is not attached to the body and can be peeled back to reveal the soft-bodied scale ...

Once sprayed on scale insects, it clogs up the spiracles on their ... Hard-bodied scales are harder to kill with this method ...

The soft-scale black variety is a common pest ... this issue can involve deploying natural techniques to get rid of scale ...