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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Soft Scales
  7. Ceroplastinae
  8. Wax Scales

genus

Wax Scales

Ceroplastes

Includes
4 native 4 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Chinese Wax Scale present
  • Fig Wax Scale present
  • Indian Wax Scale presumed native
  • Pink Wax Scale present
  • Barnacle Scale present
  • Japanese Wax Scale
  • Florida Wax Scale presumed native
  • Stellate Scale Insect native
  • Soft Wax Scale
  • Saltbush Scale presumed native
  • Duges Wax Scale
  • Tortoise Wax Scale

Range

United States

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

Most observed native wax scales All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Stellate Scale Insect Ceroplastes stellifer 122 observations

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