. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . er, Hemiptera ; ^ jn -i r-,Sub-order, Homoptera ; \ ^^™^^-^ ^^^ [An oval flattened scale insect, infesting citrus trees,especially the orange.] The soft orange scale is found in California in nearly everylocality where citrus trees are grown; it infests the woodfoliage and fruit. This, or a closely allied species, is found onplants in hot-houses. Fig. 139. — Soft OrangeScales ; at the left, one of thescales enlarged—color, yel-lo
. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . er, Hemiptera ; ^ jn -i r-,Sub-order, Homoptera ; \ ^^™^^-^ ^^^ [An oval flattened scale insect, infesting citrus trees,especially the orange.] The soft orange scale is found in California in nearly everylocality where citrus trees are grown; it infests the woodfoliage and fruit. This, or a closely allied species, is found onplants in hot-houses. Fig. 139. — Soft OrangeScales ; at the left, one of thescales enlarged—color, yel-lowish. In the Treatise on Injuri-ous Insects, 1881, I describ-ed the male of this speciesas winged. Prof. Comstock,in his Entomological Reportof 1880, writes: The maleof this species has never beenfound, although it has beenstudied from the time ofLinnseus down. In September, 1880, I pre-pared a dry mounting of aspecimen °of Lecanium hes-peridum for microscopic useat the State Fair of that year;early in the week a small in-sect was noticed coming from under a specimen beneath theglass, and finally released itself. It proved to be a male
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