California red scale
to the Diaspididae family and is a pest found worldwide, mainly in citrus, but also in fig, cotton, mango, banana, avocado, grape, and rose. Damage symptoms [...] three a day. The crawlers are mobile and very small, so they are spread easily by the wind and birds, as well as by humans and their tools. In the hours [...] by her pheromones and mates. The male does not feed and lives at most for a day. The population tends to be mostly female, at a ratio of 2.6:1.