Sentence examples for lac scale from inspiring English sources

This wasp (and other predators) are so effective that the yellow lac scale insect is rare in its native habitat.

Super-colonies of yellow crazy ants require a reliable food source and this is provided by yet another invasive species: the yellow lac scale insect (Tachardina aurantiaca).

And we found it: a tiny wasp known as Tachardiaephagus somervillei, which attacks the yellow lac scale insect in its native Southeast Asia.

Sal and S. talura are also grown for the culture of lac scale insects that produce the resin used in shellac.

Lobate lac scale insects (Paratachardina pseudolobata) kill shrubs and other plants in hardwood hammocks.

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).

Those animals in which they do occur e.g., sea urchins, aphids, lac insects, and certain scale insects—obtain their quinone compounds from the plants they eat.

Lac, lactate; Na-Lac, sodium lactate.

The intrinsic GFP- and mCherry-fluorescence was used to detect GFP-TPP1-OB-LacI and mCherry-hTERT (scale bar = 5 μm).

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

Spectral imaging at a spectral resolution of 40 50 nm is sufficient for identification of most pigments except for those based on anthraquinone dyes such as madder and scale insect dyes (e.g. lac and cochineal) and cobalt blue pigments such as smalt [14].