Maybe you have heard of the terrible blood-sucker that quench their thirst at night when you sleep. It's bed bugs. Last time I was doomed to be their prey for almost one month. The bite spot they left on my skin was a disaster. In just one week, I was turned to a guy with seemingly having a very deadliest skin disease. Thank God that with pest control service, bed bugs GONE! Okay, that's bed bugs. But what is Mealy bugs actually? Have you heard what is Mealy bugs?Mealy bug is the name of insects in Pseudococcidae, a family of unarmored scale insects found in moist, warm climates. They are considered pests as they feed on plant juices of greenhouse plants, house plants and subtropical trees. So, you can consider them as the enemy of farmers. They feed on plants by inserting long strawlike mouthparts (called stylets) into plant tissue. Besides producing a white wax, mealy bugs secrete a sticky honeydew that adheres to leaf surfaces and attracts unsightly dust and molds.
Read more...There are two kinds of Mealy bugs. First is Longtailed Mealy bugs and the second one is Citrus Mealy bugs.
How to tell that it is Longtailed Mealy bugs:
- Long tails extending from the rear of the adult females and mature nymphs
- The tails can break
- If the wax fringes along the perimeter of the body are at least one-third as long as the width of the body
- Males secrete thin elongated wax cocoons arranged sparsely on leaf surfaces; females secrete a subtle wax layer around themselves
How to tell that it is Citrus Mealy bugs:
- Do not have tails
- Their wax fringes are quite short
- Females produce thick tufts of wax material where they lay their eggs.
source:
www.mda.state.mn.us/index.htm,
www.ehow.com/how_6935_control-mealybugs.html
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