Pulvinaria hydrangeae Steinweden
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- Pulvinaria vitis
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![[Pulvinaria hydrangeae]. Adult female, with her long white eggsac and the young crawlers hatching out of it.](/assets/Discover-Our-Research/Biodiversity/Plants-fungi-arthropods-bacteria/Invertebrate-Systematics/scale-insects/Pulvinaria_hydrangeae.jpg "[Pulvinaria hydrangeae]. Adult female, with her long white eggsac and the young crawlers hatching out of it.")
[Pulvinaria hydrangeae]. Adult female, with her long white eggsac and the young crawlers hatching out of it.
Steinweden named this species hydrangeae after the plant hydrangea in 1946.
Status in New Zealand: an exotic (adventive) species, first recorded here in 1977. Not important economically. Not found on native plants.
Biology: one generation per year, overwintering as 3rd-instar [pre-adult] females. Hydrangea scale is probably parthenogenetic and there are no males in New Zealand.
Found on the stems and leaves of:
Hydrangea sp., Prunus avium [sweet cherry], Prunus serrulata [flowering cherry].