It's easy to get attached to plants. If you don't believe me, just ask a scale. No, I’m not talking about your bathroom scale, that insidious device you scream at in the morning. I'm talking about that clever little insect that gloms onto to a plant's trunk, twig, or leaf and feeds on the sap.

I learned about scale insects by default. They arrived, uninvited, on a gift houseplant. Life was good, until a sticky substance appeared on the leaves and the floor...

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