Sentence examples for by a scale insect from inspiring English sources

The lac (a resinous substance) produced by a scale insect that feeds on the leaves is used to make a fine varnish for guitars.

Cochineal is a red dye produced by a scale insect that lives on species of Opuntia.

A scale insect that feeds on tamarisks also secretes honeydew (a sweet by-product of digestion) known as manna.

Cottony-cushion scale, (Icerya purchasi), a scale insect pest (order Homoptera), especially of California citrus trees.

Some other insects that attacks the Blue Gum and can cause severe damage and mortality are the wood borer (Phoracantha semipunctata) and a scale insect (Eriococcus coriaceus).

What is the fate of cycad-derived toxins after inadvertent ingestion by an armored scale insect?

By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, June 16 , 1956P. 117 Article about the loss of nearly all of Bermuda's cedar trees--the work of a malevolent scale insect, Carulaspis visci, informally known as the juniper scale.

Shellac, commercial resin marketed in the form of amber flakes, made from the secretions of the lac insect, a tiny scale insect, Laccifer lacca (see lac).

It seems that the super-colonies of these crazy ants could not survive without the carbohydrate-rich honeydew provided by abundant scale insects in a patch of forest.

The fossilised insect is an adult female scale insect with a cluster of around 60 eggs on her abdomen.

Lac, also spelled Lack, sticky, resinous secretion of the tiny lac insect, Laccifer lacca, which is a species of scale insect.