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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Giant Scale Insects
  7. Cushion Scale Insects
  8. Cottony Cushion Scale

species 8,501 observations

Cottony Cushion Scale

Icerya purchasi

Status
presumed introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

8 native plants
support it in the US
  • Food plants Plants it feeds on Golden Currant, Water Toothleaf, Tall Evening Primrose, California Wild Rose 7
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Southern Coastal Bushmallow 1

Range

United States

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

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