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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Armored Scale Insects
  7. Lepidosaphes
  8. Oystershell Scale

species 477 observations

Oystershell Scale

Lepidosaphes ulmi

Status
introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

25 native plants
support it in the US
  • Food plants Plants it feeds on Virginia Creeper, American Beech, American Tuliptree, Green Ash 24
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Black Cottonwood 1

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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