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Examples
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Icerya purchase was able to fertilize its eggs without a male mate because it was a hermaphrodite, an organism that possesses the reproductive organs of both sexes.
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Icerya purchase was able to fertilize its eggs without a male mate because it was a hermaphrodite, an organism that possesses the reproductive organs of both sexes.
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This sure looks like a Cottony Cushion Scale, Icerya purchasi, to us.
What's That Bug? 2010
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The Cottony-Cushion Scale (Icerya purchasi) is a sap-sucking insect that was introduced accidentally that can devastate many types of trees.
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"_Icerya purchasi_, that was the name, something like that.
Planet of the Damned Harry Harrison
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"I have in my ground a plant of Spanish broom about a dozen years old and with a trunk about four inches in diameter which has for several years been seriously infested by cottony cushion scale (_Icerya purchasi_).
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