The gloomy scale is a species of armored scale insect (family Diaspidae) that infests many trees but is most associated with maples. These gray-brown insects attach themselves to bark and use ...

As a means of protection, it’s unique and effective, similar to the fluffy white covering of mealybugs or the armored plate of scale insects. This insect feeds on watery fluids from the plant ...

3), and can be up to 2 mm wide with a central pale ring. The test is not attached to the body and can be peeled back to reveal the soft-bodied scale insect (Fig.3). Spends winter as a female beneath ...