Females usually circular but sometimes irregular in crowded populations. Scale cover is white, yellow white or grayish white in color. Cover is convex and somewhat thickened.
Males are more elongated and pure white in color.
Male covers often more easily noticed. Eggs laid in early spring, begin hatching 2-4 weeks later, usually appearing in first two weeks of May. Second brood appears in early July, third in early September. Fruits such as cherry and peach, also ornamental shrubs such as aucuba, lilac, privet, spirea, mulberry, dogwood, redbud, golden raintree and many more trees and ornamentals. Bark, leaves and fruit. Spray superior oil in dormant season to suffocate eggs before hatch.