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Family Coccidae
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This page contains pictures and information about Pink Wax Scales that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia. They are also known as Red
Wax Scale. They are not welcomed by the plants growers.
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 - Diameter 5mm
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- Pink Wax Scale insects affect different type of board leaf plants. The insects live under the protected shell
cover which is their pink
waxy secretion. The insects suck the juice from plants.
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- Pink Wax Scale insects affect different type of board leaf plants. The insects live under the protected shell
cover which is their pink
waxy secretion. Notice the sooty mould that they induced. The insects suck the
plant juice. Within the juice, there are the excess water and sugar more than the insects
need. Those excess materials are excreted as honeydew. This attracts
ants and also
induces mould.
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- The adults are well under protection. Some
species of ladybirds
are the predators of their young.
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- They are pink to
pale red in colour. There are five angles surrounded it edge with four white
and one dark.
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- Reference:
- 1. A
field guide to insects in Australia - By Paul Zborowski and Ross
Storey, Reed New Holland, 1996, p86.
- 2. Outbreaks of pink wax scale, Ceroplastes rubens Maskell (Hemiptera : Coccidae), on umbrella trees in south-eastern Queensland: Patterns of parasitisation - Loch, A.D. and Zalucki, M.P. (1998-11), Australian Journal of Entomology, 37 4: 328-334.
- 3. Ceroplastes - Invasive.org, May 2010.
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