scale insect in a sentence

Examples

1. Other threats include scale insects, poaching and habitat destruction and degradation.
2. The culprits are soft brown scale insects, common on many houseplants.
3. When the scale insects feed, they excrete waste in the form of honeydew.
4. Lac was once extracted from scale insects but is now replaced by synthetic substitutes.
5. Scale insects suck sap from plants, are stationary and covered by a flattened disk.
6. They typically live among mosses and leaf litter which is unusual for scale insects.
7. Mature scale insects can be extremely frustrating because they're protected by a shell-like cover.
8. Successful past projects include those on dust control, avocado growing, scale insects, and mulching.
9. It will strip bark in a search for scale insects.
10. In a few months, the beetles had multiplied prolifically and devoured the scale insects.