Prevent tree stress: The best way to prevent mealybugs is to avoid tree stress and irrigate during periods of drought, and ...

While more than 170 species of mealybugs exist in California, few have become major pests. Some are specific to plants such as citrus mealybug, grape mealybug and vine mealybug. Some others are ...

Mealy bugs on citrus. PROVIDED PHOTO. Another sucking insect, the mealybug, looks like cottony white patches on leaves and fruit. The wooly whitefly is another insect that appears as patches of ...

Lauren Diepenbrock, assistant professor of entomology at the Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred, discovered the first appearance in 10 years of one such pest, the lebbeck mealybug ...

Kumquats are relatively cold tolerant (for a citrus), but if the fruit is exposed to freezing temperatures, the skin can crack and leave you with a dry, mealy, bland crop.

Mealybugs are insects from the family Pseudococcidae, which contain more than 2000 species. Mealybugs are soft-bodied, unarmored scale insects commonly found in moist, warm habitats.

Mealy bugs are a common sight on plants, sucking the sap for food. But few people wonder what actually goes on inside their little gray bodies. John McCutcheon, an assistant professor in the ...

Q: The fruit on my Nagami kumquat this year is variable and somewhat bland. Larger fruit have little to no acidity and can even be mealy, while smaller fruit are closer in tartness to previous ...

Researchers Nicole Quinn and Lauren Diepenbrock from the University of Florida conduct a field color test using a Lebbeck Mealybug field diagnostic kit in a citrus field of the Citrus Research and ...

The pink hibiscus mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green), threatens numerous crops of economic importance and could spread from populations in California and Florida to 33 other states. Field ...

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