IN THE CITRUS UNIVERSE - part one

A few weeks ago the small Tangerine tree in my garden was in bloom ...
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... and I spent a few hours each day ...

... exploring the surprisingly varied fauna on that tree. From the very common Bush cricket nymphs ...

... to the strange scale insects that look like limpets.
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This is the Tortoise wax scale (Ceroplastes japonicus) native to Eastern Asia ... but like many other insects connected with cultivated plants, this one also became a much widespread pest.
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Here you can take a look underneath the waxy shell. As you can see, this interesting animal practically doesn't look like an insect anymore.

This lovely little pest is the Dialeurodes citri whitefly, that colonizes underside of the leaves.

Some flowers were still buds ...

... while some others just became small fruits.
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Ants of this species were very active around the opened flowers.

There were quite a few species on the tree.

This one was occupied with aphids ...

... situated in the spirally deformed leaf. It looked like a minuscule galaxy ...

... with some little green aliens hanging there.

Predatory larvae of the Scymnus nigrinus ladybeetle ...

... were invading the place regularly.

Here is another aphid species ... a pinky one.

I saw these Psyllids appearing every evening.