And I am not referring to the upscale restaurant in Marfa, Texas, but to the small, scale insect native to our ... You recognize its presence by the white, cottony webbing that serves as sun ...

During the 1800’s, cottony-cushion scale – a scale insect – was accidently introduced into California citrus groves from Australia (Grafton-Cardwell & Gu 2003). The citrus industry was saved ...