Usually means: Insects that secrete waxy coating.
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  9. soft scale: Wiktionary

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noun:  (botany, entomology) Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.

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