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To: | Renée Ferster Levy <> |
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Subject: | Red-rumps, Gould, and mistletoe |
From: | "Peter Cranston via Canberrabirds " <> |
Date: | Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:15:18 +0000 |
Hi Renée,
My partner Penny Gullan studies scale insects of all sorts. So she says anything that looks like wattle tick scale on wattles is that species, This (female) insect has a has a very waxy cuticle (up to 2-03 mm in depth) - not to be confused with a lerp
which is a sugary-secretion, lattice-work construction made by psyllids and certainly is widely eaten and even 'farmed' eg by bell miners. The waxy cuticle of this scale insect is thick - 2-3 mm - and quite hard (try squashing one) and not very nutritious.
I (we) suspect that the juicy scale insect within the waxy cuticle would be much more tasty. Yet neither of us have seen evidence of this feeding. Observations would be interesting !
Pete
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