scale insect

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Definition of scale insect in English English dictionary: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering; type of insect that attaches itself to a plant and feeds on the leaves; Any of various small homopterous insects of the superfamily Coccoidea that suck the juices of plants, the females of which secrete and remain under waxy scales on plant tissue. Any member of several families of sap-sucking insects (order Homoptera) whose bodies are covered by a waxy shell (the scale). The eggs are protected by the female's body or scale or a waxy filamentous mass. Scale insects may attack any part of a plant, but each species is host-specific. Many species are serious plant pests; others have commercial value. The lac insect is used in a red dye and in shellac. Cochineal, a red dyestuff, consists of the dried, pulverized bodies of females of the species Dactylopius coccus. See also cottony-cushion scale, San Jose scale
A scale insect: scale
scale insects: coccidae

scale insect

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scale in·sect

skeyl însekt

/ˈskāl ˈənˌsekt/ /ˈskeɪl ˈɪnˌsɛkt/

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