mealybug

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• The adults of most species feed on nectar and honeydew produced by aphids and other sucking insects like leafhoppers, whiteflies and mealybugs.
• Green lacewings, like ladybugs, diminish aphid and mealybug populations, as well as thrips.
• Especially under glass, this will help to keep pests such as scale insects and mealybug away. Times, Sunday Times
• Especially under glass, this will help to keep pests such as scale insects and mealybug away. Times, Sunday Times
• Carefully dislodge the pests with your thumbnail or a knife, or wash mealybugs from foliage using tepid water about once a week.
• Mealybugs, aphids and whiteflies also eliminate honeydew, creating ideal conditions for sooty mold.
• Their larvae will eat large numbers and many varieties of aphids, and also devour mealybugs, whiteflies, thrips, leafhoppers, red spidermites, and a variety of other soft-bodied noxious insects.
• Implacable exotic pests like the cassava mealybug, gray leaf spot and witchweed claim up to half the harvests in the poorest countries, posing a "serious threat to life and livelihood" with "enormous economic and political ramifications," says Guy Preston of the Working for Water program, a South African government initiative dedicated to preserving fresh water. Attack Of the Aliens
• There’s also the agromyzid vegetable leafminer, the poinciana looper, the banana skipper, the Egyptian hibiscus mealybug, the chrysomelid cucumber beetle, several species of eumenid wasp, a nititulid beetle, a magarodid, a psyllid, a bagworm—even the names are strange. The Song of The Dodo
• The adults of most species feed on nectar and honeydew produced by aphids and other sucking insects like leafhoppers, whiteflies and mealybugs.