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Definition of Scale insect

1. Noun. Small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scale Insect

Literary usage of Scale insect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1890)
"The young scale insect thus becomes a degraded grub-like creature without organs of locomotion. The mouth parts remain, however, in a highly developed state ..."

2. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1877)
"Lecanium hesperidum is another scale-insect, found upon the orange and lemon trees in Florida, but not in as great numbers as the mussel-shell scale-insect ..."

3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1883)
"One mouth later the trees were recovering, but scale-insect increasing. ... One month later trees recovering ; scale-insect not diminished in numbers. ..."

4. Biennial Report by South Dakota, California State Board of Horticulture, State Athletic Commission (1890)
"CITRUS scale insect. (Aspidiotus citrinus, Coquillett. ... In San Gabriel a scale insect made its appearance on some trees that were also imported from ..."

5. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Board of Horticulture (1890)
"CITRUS scale insect. (Aspidiotus citrinus, Coquillett. ... In San Gabriel a scale insect made its appearance on some trees that were also imported from ..."

6. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1890)
"The young scale insect thus becomes a degraded grub-like creature without organs of locomotion. The mouth parts remain, however, in a highly developed state ..."

7. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1877)
"Lecanium hesperidum is another scale-insect, found upon the orange and lemon trees in Florida, but not in as great numbers as the mussel-shell scale-insect ..."

8. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1883)
"One mouth later the trees were recovering, but scale-insect increasing. ... One month later trees recovering ; scale-insect not diminished in numbers. ..."

9. Biennial Report by South Dakota, California State Board of Horticulture, State Athletic Commission (1890)
"CITRUS scale insect. (Aspidiotus citrinus, Coquillett. ... In San Gabriel a scale insect made its appearance on some trees that were also imported from ..."

10. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Board of Horticulture (1890)
"CITRUS scale insect. (Aspidiotus citrinus, Coquillett. ... In San Gabriel a scale insect made its appearance on some trees that were also imported from ..."

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