Re: scale!

Thanks!
-You rock!
-BN

PS: I still have yet to meet your brother, but it's on my list! :^)


> From: Ross Koning <rkoning@snet.net>
> Subject: Re: [ferns] scale!
> 
> Hi Bob:
> 
> This URL:
> 
> http://ipm.ncsu.edu/current_ipm/otimages.html
> 
> has a range of images of pests...if you hit the T link and
> scroll to the "Tea scale," they have photos of just about all
> stages you might want.  I realize of course that this is not the
> species you want, but I didn't find an image of the male brown
> scale which may be what you are asking about...
> 
> Here is the direct link to the image:
> 
> http://ipm.ncsu.edu/photogallery/Tscale1.JPG
> 
> While this taxon is not the same one...it is a close relative so
> I would expect the male would be at least similar.
> 
> ross
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 10, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Bob Needham wrote:
> 
> > ...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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