Scale insects are common on many trees and shrubs ... Females are about 1/2 inch (12 mm) in diameter, smooth, elliptical, spherical, pinkish-orange to brown insects that are covered with a waxy ...

Alive, they will be pink, orange or light brownish ... The test is not attached to the body and can be peeled back to reveal the soft-bodied scale insect (Fig.3). Spends winter as a female beneath ...