. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. I/O THE STUDY OF INSECTS. scientific name is coming into general use ; it is a common thing now to hear fruit-growers speak of the Lecaniums, especially in California. The Lecaniums are naked scale insects, the scale being the body of the insect. These insects are flattish or more or less hemispherical, the differ- ent species differing in form, and are usually dark brown in. Fig. 2IO.—Lecaftiicm /testeridunt. (From the Author's Report for 1880.) color. The eggs, or the young in the viviparous species, are deposited beneath the scale-like body of t
. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. I/O THE STUDY OF INSECTS. scientific name is coming into general use ; it is a common thing now to hear fruit-growers speak of the Lecaniums, especially in California. The Lecaniums are naked scale insects, the scale being the body of the insect. These insects are flattish or more or less hemispherical, the differ- ent species differing in form, and are usually dark brown in. Fig. 2IO.—Lecaftiicm /testeridunt. (From the Author's Report for 1880.) color. The eggs, or the young in the viviparous species, are deposited beneath the scale-like body of the female. Figure 209 represents Lecaniiun olecB (o^le-ae), which is very com- mon in California, where it is known as the black scale; Figure 210, the soft scale, Lecanium hcsperidum (hes-per'i- dum), which is common on various plants in all parts of. 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 Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. joint author. Ithaca, N. Y. , Comstock Pub. Co.
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