Photo by] ; [Harold Bastin. 
THE BROWN CURRANT SCALE. 
Perhaps the most familiar of all the Scale Insects. As many as a hundred eggs are secreted under this hard brown shell, 
which is the dried body of the parent. These eggs hatch in spring; six-legged grubs creep out. Each eventually settles down 
on the “‘green”’ bark, inserts its beak and commences to pump up the sap from the branch. The scales are here shown about 
four times larger than nature. 
