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The full-grown females of the false maple scale may be found 

 on maple leaves in summer and are then about one-quarter of an 

 inch in length and with a slightly less transverse diameter. The 

 parent insects are concealed by an oval mass of powdery, slightly 

 stringy wax within which is the female and her eggs (frequently 

 500 in number), the former occupying the anterior portion and her 



Fig. 6 False cottony maple scale. a=adult females on leaf; 

 fc:^young females and males on bark. Natural size. (After Howard. 

 Insect, Life. 1894. 7:235) 



body constituting about one-quarter the bulk of the mass. The 

 young remain on the leaf after emerging from the eggs, unless it 

 is too crowded, in which event they crawl down the petiole and 

 seek nourishment on healthy foliage. The males, on attaining full 

 growth, become restless and wander over the trunk and limbs for 

 from seven to ten days, finally secreting themselves beneath or 



