How to Use scale insect in a Sentence

scale insect

noun

• Stay alert for mites and scale insects to wash off as needed.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 July 2018
• The scale insects and sooty mold should slough off over a period of weeks.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
• The Azteca ants, in turn, are motivated to protect the scale insects from the beetles, since the former are a source of food for the ants.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2020
• Alas, that plant is no more, having succumbed to scale insects.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 25 Dec. 2019
• The action will reduce scale insects, mites, aphids and other pests that feed on the plants and carry diseases.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2018
• The life of the cottony cushion scale insect reads like something from the most ridiculous of tabloid newspapers.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2011
• This particular scale is one of the largest of the soft-scale insects that attack trees by sucking plant fluids and sap.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• That’s sooty mold, a fungus that gets started in the sticky honeydew residue left behind by aphids and scale insects.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• The story of carminic acid traces back thousands of years to bright red Phoenician garments colored by a crushed scale insect of the Kermes genus.
  — Brittany J. Miller, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• Your plant has been invaded by scale insects that may be yellow, green or brown in color, which makes them hard to see.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 June 2018
• Most likely scale insects are sucking juices from the foliage and stems which produce excreta to support the growth of the sooty mold fungus.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
• Tea scale insects tend to congregate on the underside of the leaves, but will appear on the upper surface if the infestation is heavy.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• The keys to success: Get a good variety, give it good growing and then flowering conditions, and keep an eye out for scale insects.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 25 Dec. 2019
• They are known to feed on fungus, particularly the mildew type and possibly arthropods such as mites, aphids, and scale insects.
  — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
• But our findings indicate that overall, the idea of large-scale insect declines remains an open question.
  — Matthew D. Moran, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2020
• The list includes nutria and feral hogs, which damage thousands of wetland acres every year, and the Asian scale insect decimating the coast's roseau cane.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Check for scale insects, and if needed, apply a natural control.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 May 2018
• Would inkberry be a good replacement for my cherry laurel that is always covered with white scale insects?
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• When there are heavy infestations, the entire branch may be covered with scale and appear purple and rough from numerous scale insects.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• The same fungal disease that keeps scale insects under control can also target coffee rust.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2020
• Cochineal, created by crushing up Dactylopius coccus, a species of scale insect, is safe to handle and consume, but its safety is trumped in the minds of some by its animal origin.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• Horticulture oils, like Summit Year Round Spray oil, labeled for use on indoor plants and citrus, are considered organic and can be used to treat scale insects on citrus.
  — Melinda Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2018
• If the scales are so well protected by the ants that their numbers become too large, for instance, a white halo fungal disease can break out, decimating the scale insect population to restore the balance.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2020
• The individual scale insects are enrobed in fungal chambers which shield them from predators and the elements, though some are parasitized so the fungus can obtain nutrients.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
• However, if stressed by growing conditions, beetles and scale insects sometimes become a problem.
  — oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
• Another more persistent and more damaging creature than the cicada is the scale insect, actually a range of scale species that have their own preferences for ornamental woody plants and citrus.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• The most commonly eaten insect groups globally, according to the FAO, are ants; beetles; bees; caterpillars; cicadas; crickets; dragonflies; flies; grasshoppers; leaf bugs; locusts; scale insects; termites; and wasps.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
• Control scale by applying dormant or horticultural oil, which coats the calcium cover and eventually suffocates the scale insect within its shell.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 26 Dec. 2020
• Legions of professional entomologists fret about sawflies, ambrosia beetles, scale insects and leafhoppers.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024