(Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)
Issue No. 380
Avas B. Hamon and Gregor J. Mason
January/February, 1997
Introduction
The fig wax scale, Ceroplastes rusci (L.), was first discovered in Florida at several nursery and stock dealers in 1994 and 1995. It has been a pest of Ixora spp. and infrequently found on other host plants. Prior to these discoveries, the California Department of Food and Agriculture had intercepted specimens from Florida.