scale insect

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kabuklu bit
a scale insect
kırmızböceği
English - English
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

    Hyphenation

    scale in·sect

    Turkish pronunciation

    skeyl însekt

    Pronunciation

    /ˈskāl ˈənˌsekt/ /ˈskeɪl ˈɪnˌsɛkt/
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