“maple scale”

We have one entry that includes the term maple scale.

cottony maple scale

noun

: a brown oval soft scale (Pulvinaria innumerabilis) that in summer becomes covered with a white cottony secretion beneath which its eggs are laid, that is widespread in North America, and that attacks and often kills various native and cultivated trees and shrubs


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