Apr 11, 2014
Jane Delahoyde, a PCA here in Ventura, recently found an unusual scale in lemon here. It is barnacle scale with a typically long Latin name - Ceroplastes cirripediformis. It is unlikely to be any worse than other scales, but it's something to keep our eyes on. This is one of the soft scales, often called wax scales because of the wax they produce. It turns out that this has been described as being in Southern California for years, but some years they are just more present. For more on "Wax" scales see the Texas A&M site
https://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/aimg110.html
or our UC IPM website
http://ucipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7408.html
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