Beginner Gardening: scale on dracaena plants, 1 by GOODGREEN

GOODGREEN wrote:
I got some dracaena on sale at lowes-cheap, and when I got them home I noticed something on them- armored scale I believe its called-
not one with a lot patience, I skipped the alcohol,soaps, ect., and went straight for the NEEM oil
sprayed it several times over the course of 2 weeks, and it doesn't look any worse, but looks no better either
someone said the scale wont fall off when it dies, so it may look the same until you physically scrape it off--
is this true???