白蜡是由白蜡虫的雄虫所分泌的,雌虫只能作种,不能泌蜡,因而称雌虫为种虫,称雄虫为蜡虫。在生产区域,以繁殖雌虫采收种虫为目的的挂放种虫的工作,称为挂虫;以繁殖雄虫采收白蜡为目的的挂放种虫工作,则称为挂蜡。白蜡虫的生态学特点,表现在雌雄两性对于环境条件具有不同适应性方面,故形成了两种不同的生活型。这种特点,显著地表现在雌雄虫 White wax is secreted by the male worm white wax insect, the female can only be species, not the secretion of wax, so that the female as a species of insects, said the male is a wax insect. In production areas, breeding females breeding breeding insects for the purpose of the hanging worms work, known as the pest insects; to reproduce the male paraffin beet for the purpose hanging hanging worms, is called hanging wax. The ecological characteristics of the waxworms, manifested in the male and female sex adaptability to different environmental conditions, it formed two different types of life. This characteristic, notably in male and female