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Harun Yahya

SCALE INSECT

Age: 45 million years

Period: Eocene

Location: Baltic States, Jantarny, Russia

Having a good understanding of these insects' characteristics is important, for these living species,
so very small in size, are often assumed to be simple creatures. Scale insects are parasites that feed
on the sap of plants. Roughly dome-shaped, they secrete a sticky, somewhat sweet liquid. There are
over 7,000 species of scale insects, including the common soft scale, woolen scale, half-spherical
scale and fig scale.

These insects' reproductive system is remarkable. In May, a female scale starts to lay some 3,000
eggs under her shell, which is made up from a section of her back. Beneath this shell, the eggs con-
tinue their embryonic development. This way, the young larvae are protected. Within a short pe-
riod of time, larvae with an oval structure emerge, moving freely and migrate to other sites along
the plant.

The advocates of evolution, which is merely a deception, benefit from people's lack of knowledge
and avoid mentioning the highly complex features of living species like these. But scale insects' fea-
tures such as their reproductive systems and the parasitic life they lead with plants are too complex

to be explained away by the simplistic claims of the theory of evolution.

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