scale!

...and I don't mean the weighing kind!
...or the fish kind!
...or a ruler!
...not the size of a model, either!
...or to climb a mountain!
...not a series of musical notes!
...or a skin disease!
...or to measure something!
...or a modified leaf protecting a seed plant bud before expansion!
...or a hard incrustation usually rich in sulfate of calcium that is deposited 
   on the inside of a vessel (as a boiler) in which water is heated!
   (O.K., I copied the last two out of the Dictionary when I was running out of
    ideas.) Maybe it was tricks like that that prompted my High School English 
    teacher to give me a "D-"! Heck, I think it was just because she was crabby
    for looking remarkably like one of these orange flying beetles I have 
    buzzing around the place (but with only two legs, and on steroids, to boot).

But seriously, folks, I really AM looking for a photo of the flying form of brown
scale, which I have been told exists. I suspect that the little caramel-colored
beetles I previously described could be a flying form of scale, or else perhaps
relatives of my High School English Teacher that have come back to haunt me. I 
have been unable to find much on the subject or any images, and any help or URL 
references would be appreciated.

I did find this much, though:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=39658&query=armored%20scale&ct=

...which would make for humorous reading were it not for terms like this:
"32,000 species!" (Heaven help us!)
"sucking mouthparts" (gotta sleep with the hall light on again now!)
"two ocelli" (In our High School orchestra, we had only one Cello)
"Head not prolonged in front" (See? That sounds like my High School English Teacher!)
"Second segment of hind tarsus large" (yep, that's her!)
"clavus with numerous small pustule-like tubercles" (she had plenty of pustules...)
"jumping plant lice" (that sounds like her relatives!)
"sexual forms with the mouthparts atrophied and not functional" (Yeah, I couldn't
    imagine her being into that...)
"dog-day harvest-flies" (Eeeuuww, that's just a bad, BAD word-image!!!!
                         Who writes for Britannica, anyway?)

My secret plan is to collect all the scale from the face of the planet and put them
on a rocketship to the sun....  ;^>

-Any help would be appreciated,
-Thanks,
-BN

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