mealy bug

mealybug

(Animals) any plant-eating homopterous insect of the genus Pseudococcus and related genera, coated with a powdery waxy secretion: some species are pests of citrus fruits and greenhouse plants: family Pseudococcidae

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mealy bug - scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees

mealybug

coccid insect - scale insects and mealybugs

family Pseudococcidae, Pseudococcidae - scalelike insects: mealybugs

citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, Pseudococcus fragilis - destructive especially to citrus

Comstock mealybug, Comstock's mealybug, Pseudococcus comstocki - Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States; pest on citrus and apple trees

citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri - feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus

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MULTAN -- The Punjab agriculture department has warned farmers to take special care of cotton crop as mealy bug attack was witnessed in various areas of South Punjab.

Mealy bug attacks cotton field

Better to grow Tecoma stans , Leucophyllum frutescens or even the ubiquitous hibiscus, despite mealy bug problems -- (try hybrids rather than the common or garden red flowered ones).

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He said that federal and provincial research centers are working in cotton research and these centers have developed cotton varieties which would ward off leaf curl; a lethal cotton plant disease, succeeded against mealy bug which was so drastic a bug that wrecked havoc on cotton fields and in past incurred 2-3 million cotton bales loss, moreover these centers have worked on methods where water could be saved and mechanization of cotton picking.

Strategy to increase cotton cultivation, decrease input cost on cards: Minister

Zigzag beetle, Menochilus sexmaculatus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) is an important predator of cotton mealy bug, Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae).

Effect of Temperature on Demography and Predation Rate of Menochilus sexmaculatus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Reared on Phenacoccus solenopsis (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)

Bay trees aren't usually bothered by diseases and pests, but once in a while, you may see a mealy bug or scale damage.

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The overall mean population of mealy bug was comparatively higher (0.64/plant) at nursery farm followed by the research farm (0.47/plant) and (0.22/plant) at student farm.

MONITORING OF INSECT PESTS AND THEIR NATURAL ENEMIES ON BIODIESEL PLANT, JATROPHA CURCAS L

Botanical insecticides have been found effective against mealy bug, partiazadirachtin [15].

Efficacy of Bio-Pesticides for Managegement of Sucking Insect Pests of Cotton, Gossipium hirsutum (L.)

of Aphid, a hot spot of armyworm, and one Mealy Bug hot spot

Hot spots of pests, bollworms witnessed in Punjab

Aenasius bambawalei were collected as mummified mealy bug and isolated in gelatin capsules (10 mm in length) until adult emergence.

Interactions between ghost ants and invasive mealybugs: the case of Tapinoma melanocephalum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and Phenacoccus solenopsis (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)

2010 also reported the variety of host plants that provided food for the mealy bug and served as carry over for the pest.

The impact of sowing dates and varieties on the incidence of Oxycarenus laetus and Dysdercus koingii on cotton/O impacto da epoca de semeadura e das variedades na incidencia de Oxycarenus laetus e Dysdercus koingii sobre algodao