was formed with the aim to promote the profession of entomology. Now, nearly 60 years later the society has an active membership of more than 250 people from throughout New Zealand that devote their professional or personal time to understanding and disseminating knowledge of the New Zealand insect fauna.
The Entomological Society of New Zealand
Snapshots Of Entomology
The beech scale insect Sarococcus fagi
William Maskell described this bi-coloured beech mealybug in 1891. Cox (Fauna of NZ 11, 1987) added three more green-coloured species to this endemic Nothofagus-feeding genus. They can generally be found on N. fusca, N. menziesii and N. solandri in forests throughout New Zealand. The photo is of an S. fagi female collected at the Harwoods Hole Track carpark in North-west Nelson. She is facing down towards the leaf petiole, with her antennae tucked in beside the head, and her four white wax tail filaments protruding from the posterior end.
By Rosa Henderson
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December 22, 2011
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