Insect Pests of Fruit, Plantation, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops (2+1)

3. Soft scale

3. Soft scale - Eulecanium tiliae L. (Coccidae: Hemiptera)

Damage

• Both nymphs and adult scale insects infest leaves and twigs.
Bionomics

• It is a soft, hemispherical dark brown scale.
• It lays the eggs during March-April and they hatch in 12-15 days.
• The crawlers settle on leaves and nymphs migrate to twigs during July-December.
• The adult female emerge in February and males in March or April.