Interesting how people view things differently. When I read about "8,000 species", I thought, 'That's not many'! Compared to the numbers of some
families of beetles, flies and Hymenoptera .... it's all a matter of personal perspective.
They are an interesting group and not all are well-studied (the non- or minor pest species) and a lot could be learned from people observing them regularly. Probably
not the arboreal species - that would involve us climbing up trees in the summer!
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Originally Posted by goosey
Thanks Paul - incredible to think that there are approx' 8000 species of scale insects.
I haven't noticed the ones in my garden being "a pest" but looking at the ones in the second photo they are on a damaged bit of wood so it would probably make feeding off the sap of the plant easier.
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