Beech
Beech forest, Eglington Valley. Image - Graeme Henderson
On beech, Nothofagus
There are two different soft scale insects here:
![<em>Crystallotesta fagi</em>. Left: a young female. She fills her clear waxy test and her greenish colour shows through. Right: an old female. Her body [darker part] has shrunk to the anterior end of her white glassy wax test [lower end in picture] after producing all her crawlers (young scales). [Photos: DSIR].](https://oldwww.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/image/0020/42752/crfagi2pics72.jpg) |
Crystallotesta fagi (Maskell) Conical beech scale |
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Crystallotesta neofagi Henderson & Hodgson Glassy beech scale |