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The hibiscus mealybug arrived in Egypt from India in 1912 and in Hawaii in 1984. Finally, it appeared in Grenada, Trinidad, and St. Kitts in the 1990s. It is a very serious pest in the Caribbean where it attacks many hosts of economic importance and disrupts Caribbean agricultural trade and commerce. Wingless crawlers, nymphs, and females have ...
The males are short-lived, as they do not feed at all as adults and only live to fertilize the females. Male citrus mealy bugs fly to the females and resemble fluffy gnats. Some species of mealybug lay their eggs in the same waxy layer used for protection in quantities of 50–100; other species are born directly from the female.
The roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is used as a vegetable. The species Hibiscus suratensis Linn synonymous with Hibiscus aculeatus G. Don is noted in Visayas in the Philippines as being a souring ingredient for almost all local vegetables and menus. Known as labog in the Visayan area (or labuag/sapinit in Tagalog), the species is an ingredient ...
Hypogeococcus pungens (cactus mealybug) [21] Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale) Isometrus maculatus (lesser brown scorpion) Lernaea cyprinacea (anchor worm) [1] Linepithema humile (Argentine ant) Litopenaeus vannamei (whiteleg shrimp) [22] Maconellicoccus hirsutus (pink hibiscus mealybug) [23] Macrobrachium lar (Tahitian prawn) [1]
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Paracoccus marginatus, commonly known as the papaya mealybug, is a small sap-sucking insect in the mealybug family, Pseudococcidae. It is found on a number of different hosts, including economically important tropical fruit trees and various ornamental plants .
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Hypogeococcus pungens (Cactus mealybug) [143] Icerya purchasi (Cottony cushion scale) [144] Incisitermes minor (Western drywood termite) [133] Leptocybe invasa (Blue gum chalcid wasp) [145] Linepithema humile (Argentine ant) [146] Lissachatina fulica (African giant land snail) [147] Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Pink hibiscus mealybug) [148]