Nigel Cattlin / Cushion scale insect (Pulvinaria floccifera) laying eggs on underside of cultivated Rhododendron (Rhododendron sp) leaf. In garden, Berkshire, England, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Cushion scale insect (Pulvinaria floccifera) laying eggs on underside of cultivated Rhododendron (Rhododendron sp) leaf. In garden, Berkshire, England, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Cushion scale insect (Pulvinaria floccifera) on underside of cultivated Rhododendron (Rhododendron sp) leaf. In garden, Berkshire, England, UK. June.

Piotr Naskrecki / Soft Scale Insect (Coccidae) group with parasitic wasps, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Pete Oxford / Soft Scale Insect (Coccidae) group, Napo River, Yasuni National Park, Amazon, Ecuador

Murray Cooper / Soft Scale Insect (Coccidae) group, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Grand Devil's-claws (Pisonia grandis) rainforest vegetation killed by introduced Soft Scale Insect (Pulvinaria sp), Palmyra Atoll, US Line Islands, Oceania

Piotr Naskrecki / Soft Scale Insect (Coccidae) group with parasitic wasps, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Suzi Eszterhas / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) mother holding eight-month-old joey, Queensland, Australia

Nigel Cattlin / The exit hole of a Parasitoid wasp (Metaphycus helvolus) in the shell of its Soft scale insect host (Saissetia coffeae), England, UK. February.

Nigel Cattlin / Brown scale / European fruit lecanium (Parthenolecanium corni) insect infestation on a grapevine, England, UK.

Nigel Cattlin / Heart-shaped / Pyriform scale (Protopulvinaria pyriformis) insect infestation on an Avocado (Persea americana) leaf, South Africa.