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Leucaspis podocarpi Green: White totara scale

December 4, 2025 Kyle Beucke

California Pest Rating Profile for

Leucaspis podocarpi Green: White totara scale
Pest Rating: B

Comment Period: 12/04/2025 – 01/18/2026

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Photo Gallery: WEEDS

Turkey Berry
Turkey Berry | Solanum torvum
Alternanthera philoxeroides
Alternanthera philoxeroides | alligatorweed
Asclepias physocarpa
Arundo donax (Giant Reed)
Arundo donax (Giant Reed)
common crupina
common crupina (Crupina vulgaris) Cass. | Photographer: Utah State University
Branched broomrape
Bearded Creeper (Crupina vulgaris)
Jewel distaff thistle
Jewel distaff thistle (photo by Steve Hurst, hosted by the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database)
Canadian wood-nettle (Laportea canadensis), photographed at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (New York) in September
Canadian wood-nettle (Laportea canadensis) | By Raffi Kojian (http://Gardenology.org) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
myrtle spurge
myrtle spurge | Euphorbia myrsinites L | Photographer: Steve Dewey
Orange Hawkweed, photo by Becca MacDonald, Sault College, bugwood.org
orange hawkweed | Hieracium aurantiacum L. | Photographer: Becca MacDonald
ragweed parthenium
ragweed parthenium | Parthenium hysterophorus L. | Photographer: Charles T. Bryson
Senegal Tea Plant
Senegal Tea Plant | Photographer: Robert Vidéki
Figure 2: Phoradendron serotinum ©2011 Jorg & Mimi Fleige
Phoradendron serotinum ©2011 Jorg & Mimi Fleige
European Mistletoe
European Mistletoe | Viscum album L
Pickerelweed
Pickerelweed | Pontederia cordata L.
Russian Thistle
Slender Russian Thistle (Salsola collina) Pallas
Giant Reed
Giant Reed (Arundo donax) L.
Manchurian Wild Rice
Manchurian Wild Rice | Zizania latifolia
Vachellia nilotica
Vachellia nilotica

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