Image Number: 5445571

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Infestation
Description:
magnolia scales are tucked within the cracks of this damaged tree trunk.  Scales are being tended by ants (Tetramorium caespitum), and the ants have covered some scales with debri.
Image type:
Field

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Subject

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Coccidae
Subfamily: Myzolecaniinae
Tribe: Myzolecaniini
Genus: Neolecanium
Subject: Neolecanium cornuparvum (Thro)

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Magnoliidae
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Magnoliaceae
Genus: Magnolia
Subject: Magnolia x soulangeana Soul.-Bod.
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Image uploaded:
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Image last updated:
Wednesday, June 11, 2014