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Note that the main photo is rotated to make the insect look more like a plant bud. In reality, it was hanging from the underside of the stem. female Icerya purchasi, cottony cushion scale (Invertebrate, Arthropoda, Insecta, Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha (Homoptera, aphids, scales, etc.), Margarodidae), New Zealand: Naturalised collected on a stem of a young kowhai tree in our back garden Sophora microphylla, kowhai (Plant, Fabaceae), New Zealand: Endemic identified using Crowe (2002) Which New Zealand Insect? 3 Gainsborough Street Hoon Hay Christchurch New Zealand macro through 10x botanical hand lens