Some garden pests are instantly recognisable. Youll never confuse a greenfly with an earwig, and a caterpillar chewing on a cabbage leaf will never be misidentified. Scale, on the other hand, come in a wide variety of disguises, but the problems they cause can be just as severe. Scale is actually a general term for a large group of tiny, sap-sucking pests which are common in agriculture and gardens across the country. There are hundreds of distinct scale species in Australia alone, with thousan
