Thirteenth International Symposium on Scale Isect Studies: an Overview

A brief overview of the XIIIth International Symposium on Scale Insect Studies (ISSIS) is presented. The extraordinary diversity of scale insects and their biology is briefly summarised, followed by a short summary of previous ISSIS meetings. The wide range of papers presented at the meeting is then summarised. In honour of their contribution to scale insect studies, three tributes were read for colleagues who had died recently and three colleagues were presented with plaques.