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Managing mealybugs in cassava

, 2014
Farmers in Thailand share practical tips to reduce the chance of mealybugs arriving in your cassava field. Special attention is paid to planting time; using healthy planting materials; disinfecting cassava stakes; protecting beneficial insects; and ...
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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Phytochemical Profiling, Bioactivity, and Insecticidal Effectiveness of Mammea americana L. Leaf Extracts Against Ferrisia sp.

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Plant botanical extracts are recognized for being a source of biologically active phytochemicals that potentially have diverse applications. The phytochemical composition, potential cytotoxicity, and insecticidal effectiveness of three leaf extracts from
Mike Vázquez-Torres, Nilka Rivera-Portalatín, Irma Cabrera-Asencio   +2 more
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Vegetative growth and fruit quality traits of six mango cultivars as affected by mealybug infestation [PDF]

Journal of Water and Land Development
The striped mealybug (Ferrisia virgata Cockerell) is an agricultural pest that infests mango trees by feeding with its mouthparts, thereby impairing tree structure.
Moustafa M.S. Bakry, Mohammed S. Hammad, El-Nouby H. Salem, Rania M. Taha, Eman F.M. Tolba   +4 more
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Endosymbiont genomes from Pseudococcus viburni mealybugs

Genome data (in FASTA format) for the three endosymbionts found within Pseudococcus viburni mealybugs.
Arkadiy Garber (10023041)
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Olfactory Responses of Parasitoid Apoanagyrus lopezi to Odor of Plants, Mealybugs, and Plant–Mealybug Complexes

Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1998
Apoanagyrus (Epidinocarsis) lopezi De Santis is an endoparasitoid used in the biological control of the cassava mealybug Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero in Africa. The response of naive and mated females of A. lopezi to odors from cassava plant (var.
Souissi, R., Nénon, J.P., /Le Rü, Bruno   +2 more
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The impact of insecticides on the cotton mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis (Tinsley): Efficacy on potato, a new record of host plant in Egypt

Journal of Plant Protection Research, 2019
The cotton mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis (Tinsley) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), has become a widespread pest causing serious losses in several economically important crops, articularly cotton. To the best of our knowledge this is the first record of
Mohamed Rezk, Abdel-Nasser T. Hassan, Moustafa F. El-Deeb, Nehal Shaarawy, Youssef Dewer   +4 more
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Interactions between Ghost Ants and Invasive Mealybugs: The Case of Tapinoma melanocephalum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and Phenacoccus solenopsis (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)

, 2014
Mutualism between ants and honeydew-producing hemipterans is a common phenomenon in ecosystems, and interactions between ants and hemipterans have been extensively studied.
Ai-Ming Zhou, G. Liang, L. Zeng, Yong-Yue Lu, Yijuan Xu   +4 more
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Die Assoziationen der Pflanzenameise Cladomyrma mit Pflanzen in Südostasien [PDF]

, 2010
In over 100 genera of tropical angiosperms, one or more species possess specialised structures for housing ants. The longevity and intimacy of these associations has often facilitated an increasing specialisation of both the ants and the plants, leading ...
Moog, Joachim
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Short‐term heat stress results in diminution of bacterial symbionts but has little effect on life history in adult female citrus mealybugs

, 2014
Mealybugs are sap‐feeding insect pests that pose a serious threat to horticulture. The citrus mealybug, Planococcus citri (Risso) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), like most other mealybug species, harbours two obligate maternally transmitted bacterial ...
J. Parkinson, B. Gobin, W. Hughes
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The occurrence of two species of pineapple mealybugs (Dysmicoccus spp.) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in China and their genetic relationship based on rDNA ITS sequences

, 2014
To explore the composition, distribution and interrelation of the pineapple mealybugs in China, samples were collec from 14 counties of five provinces. The genetic variations of pineapple mealybugs from China, Brazil and Hawaii of USA have been analyzed.
Yan-Biao He, Ying-Hong Liu, R. Zhan, Zai-fu Xu, Guang-Xin Sun, Yanlong Zhao, Guoping Li, Jin-Mei Chang   +7 more
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