Ok,
Now I'm confused. I always considered the little brown cones I found on
the bottom of leaves as scale. What is in these pictures looks to me more
like mealy bugs (though I'm sure I'm mistaken). Am I just seeing adults
while these are young scale? I did find it interesting that the males fly.
I always had what I thought were gnats.
"BruceM" wrote in message
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For all of the lurkers and new enthusiasts trying to glean information....
I never found really good pictures of this when I was researching my
infestation. Here are a couple for you to reference. I beleive these are
Boisduval scale .
http://home.roadrunner.com/~katkom/scale1.jpg
http://home.roadrunner.com/~katkom/scale2.jpg
from South Dakota State University
http://nathist.sdstate.edu/orchids/pests/scales.htm
http://nathist.sdstate.edu/orchids/p...ale%20male.jpg
http://nathist.sdstate.edu/orchids/p...0on%20leaf.jpg
http://nathist.sdstate.edu/orchids/p...0in%20axil.jpg