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A genus of armored scales including the San Jose scale and several others that are very destructive to orchard trees .

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  • Quinta cannae and Cacographis ortholatis in Venezuela, Aspidiotus destructor in the Antilles and Polynesia, Pentalonia nigronervosa, Tetraleurodes ursorum and Corythucha...
  • The male on the other hand passes into a second larval stage in which there are no functional legs, but rudiments of legs and of wings are present on the epidermis beneath the...
  • Fruit trees should be again washed and rubbed to kill off the young Bark lice, of which the common apple Bark louse (Aspidiotus conchiformis, Fig. 248), whose...
  • I have seen the male of Aspidiotus in February, so that the active larva may be expected in March, and the active Lecanium
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