Adult female kuno scales, Eulecanium kunoense, as they appear in the spring shortly before egg-laying begins.

A twig with four adult, female kuno scales, globular, yellowish bodies with partially coalescing black blotches and a diffuse, median longitudinal, orange stripe. Credit: Raymond J. Gill, California Department of Food and Agriculture, United States National Collection of Scale Insects Photographs, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org
Credit: Raymond J. Gill, California Department of Food and Agriculture, United States National Collection of Scale Insects Photographs, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org