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Elongate hemlock scale, an exotic scale insect pest of Christmas trees and other conifers

EDIS, 2019
Elongate hemlock scale, Fiorinia externa Ferris (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), is an armored scale insect native to Japan and eastern Asia. This insect was first documented in the United States in 1908 in Queens, NY, and has since spread throughout most of ...
Adam G. Dale, Travis Birdsell, Jill Sidebottom   +2 more
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Winter Activity for Crapemyrtle Bark Scale, an Urban Landscape Pest

HortScience, 2023
Scale insects are some of the most abundant and damaging pests of urban forests in North America. Despite their prevalence, scale insect emergence during the winter dormant season, which could contribute to their population growth and spread and thereby ...
Erika R. Wright , Kevin D. Chase , Caitlin Littlejohn , Amber Stiller , Samuel F. Ward   +4 more
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Wolbachia and DNA barcoding insects: patterns, potential and problems [PDF]

, 2012
Wolbachia is a genus of bacterial endosymbionts that impacts the breeding systems of their hosts. Wolbachia can confuse the patterns of mitochondrial variation, including DNA barcodes, because it influences the pathways through which mitochondria are ...
BC Schmidt, BL Fisher, Brian L. Fisher, CC Nice, Claudia Bertrand, Cory Sheffield, D Steinke, DA Grasso, Da-Wei Huang, Daniel H. Janzen, DD Shoemaker, DH Janzen, Dirk Steinke, Donald Quicke, Eldon S. Eveleigh, ER Swartz, FM Jiggins, GDD Hurst, HR Braig, I Meusnier, J Engelstadter, J Fernandez Triana, J Fernandez Triana, J Ferrari, J Rozas, JA Russell, James Whitfield, Jan Hrcek, Jason Gibbs, Jonathan H. Badger, Jose Fernandez-Triana, Josephine Rodriguez, Julie K. Stahlhut, JWO Ballard, K Hilgenboecker, Kate Crosby, Katharine Hind, L Baldo, L Baldo, L Excoffier, LA Weinert, Laurence Packer, LL Chen, M Virgilio, M. Alex Smith, MA Smith, MA Smith, MA Smith, MA Smith, MA Smith, MA Smith, Mark R. Shaw, MC Linares, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Milan Janda, Monty Wood, NV Ivanova, PDN Hebert, PDN Hebert, R Raychoudhury, R Raychoudhury, RA Johnstone, Rodolphe Rougerie, RS Rasmussen, S Ratnasingham, Scott E. Miller, SL Dobson, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, T Wenseleers, TL Whitworth, Winnie Hallwachs, X-J Sun, Xin Zhou, Yanwei Li, YW Li, Z Gompert   +75 more
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Clean and Green Urban Water Bodies Benefit Nocturnal Flying Insects and Their Predators, Insectivorous Bats [PDF]

, 2020
Nocturnal arthropods form the prey base for many predators and are an integral part of complex food webs. However, there is limited understanding of the mechanisms influencing invertebrates at urban water bodies and the potential flow-on effects to their
Buchholz, Sascha, Lentini, Pia E., Lumsden, Linda F., Straka, Tanja M., van der Ree, Rodney, Wintle, Brendan A.   +5 more
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Species related to the Diaspididae (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) family found in park and ornamental plants in Dalaman, Köyceğiz and Marmaris districts of Muğla province

Turkish Journal of Forestry, 2020
In the study carried out in Dalaman, Köyceğiz and Marmaris districts of Muğla province in 2018-2019; harmful the armored scale insects have been identified in park and ornamental plants.
Levent ISPARTA, Bülent YAŞAR
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Bird predation on Roseau cane scale as revealed by a web image search and querying a citizen monitoring database

Ecosphere, 2023
An invasion of Roseau cane scale, Nipponaclerda biwakoensis, native to East Asia, is associated with recent widespread dieback of common reed stands in the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana.
Suzuki Noriyuki, Izumi Matsumoto, Tetsuro Yoshikawa, Shuji Kaneko, Hannah J. Broadley   +4 more
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Feeding Preference of Crapemyrtle Bark Scale (Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae) on Different Species

Insects, 2020
Crapemyrtle bark scale (CMBS; Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae) is an exotic pest species that causes aesthetic and economic damage to crapemyrtles and poses potential threats to other horticultural crops in the United States.
Runshi Xie, Bin Wu, Haijie Dou, Cuiyu Liu, Gary W. Knox, Hongmin Qin, Mengmeng Gu   +6 more
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A Guide to Scale Insect Identification

EDIS, 2018
Control of scale insects in Florida citrus utilizes native and introduced exotic natural enemies, including predators, parasites, and pathogens. Under most conditions, predators and parasites suppress scale pest populations to a level where chemical ...
Stephen H. Futch, C.W. McCoy, C.C. Childers   +2 more
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First Report of Umbaspis regularis (Newstead, 1911) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) Associated with Agonandra brasiliensis Miers ex Benth. & Hook.f. (Opiliaceae) in the Brazilian Cerrado

Entomological Communications, 2022
Agonandra brasiliensis Miers ex Benth. & Hook.f. (Opiliaceae), popularly known as “pau-marfim” or “cerveja de pobre”, is a tree species of the Brazilian Cerrado and it’s used for timber and medicinal purposes by the local population.
Marcelo T. de Castro, Sandro C. L. Montalvão, Vera Regina S. Wolff   +2 more
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Alecanochiton marquesi (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae), a new record for Colombia and Costa Rica, and description of its first-instar nymph

Caldasia, 2018
The Marques’ soft scale, Alecanochiton marquesi (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) is recorded from Colombia and Costa Rica on Sapotaceae (Manilkara zapota) and on Melastomataceae (Conostegia xalapensis, Miconia trinervia, and M. schlimii), respectively.
Oscar Javier Dix Luna, Jose Mauricio Montes-Rodríguez, Andy J. Kulikowski, Demian Takumasa Kondo   +3 more
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