. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. the covering or scale that protects them. To see the insect itself, take a pin or the point of a knife and gently lift the scale, and underneath will be found a pear- shaped, fat, yellow, helpless body, the real insect, with no legs or eyes in the case of the females, but only a long sucking tube beneath its body projecting into the bark or tissues of the fruit beneath. (See Fig. 4.) Description of the Scale in More Detail.—Now that we have given a general description of the various stages of the scale found in summer, let us con- sider more carefully the th
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Ontario. the covering or scale that protects them. To see the insect itself, take a pin or the point of a knife and gently lift the scale, and underneath will be found a pear- shaped, fat, yellow, helpless body, the real insect, with no legs or eyes in the case of the females, but only a long sucking tube beneath its body projecting into the bark or tissues of the fruit beneath. (See Fig. 4.) Description of the Scale in More Detail.—Now that we have given a general description of the various stages of the scale found in summer, let us con- sider more carefully the three most important stages for identification, namely, the adult female, adult male and the black or winter stage. (a) Adult female Scale. (See Fig. 3A) :—Shape circular or almost circular, nearly fiat, being slightly raised towards the centre; size to mm. in diameter, average about mm. (about 1-16 of an inch) ; general color grayish or ashy brown, with a lighter colored central area from 1-4 to 1-5 of the total diameter in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture. Toronto : The Dept.
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