Mealybugs and scales

Hemiptera Mealybugs and scales What are mealybugs & scales? Mealybugs (family Pseudococcidae), soft scales (family Coccidae) and armoured scales (family Diaspididae) [...] females are wingless and immobile, and covered with a hard scale (armoured scales and soft scales) or with waxy threads (mealybugs). They suck the sap of [...] particularly sensitive to soft scales, as are oleanders and orchids. Armoured scales, unlike mealybugs and soft scales, produce no honeydew. They feed

Cottony cushion scale

cushion scale As with all scale insects, the females do not have wings and look similar to the immature stages. Immature cottony cushion scales have black [...] Icerya purchasi Cottony cushion scale General The cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi , is considered to have originated in Australia. It was accidentally [...] example of successful classical biological control. The cottony cushion scale has subsequently spread widely through most of the tropical and subtropical

Melon

"pepo". Nowadays many different cultivars are being produced on a commercial scale, especially muskmelons. The most common species of melon are: Watermelon

Beet armyworm

sometimes in several layers, and on top of a mass of white, cottony hairs and scales from the moth’s body. The eggs, usually grey but sometimes greenish or pinkish [...] leaf down to the mid-rib. Flowers and buds are also attacked. This large-scale damage has considerable consequences for the growth of the crop. With a

The journey of sustainable citrus farming in agriculture

been actively controlling mealybugs with Citripar and Cryptobug , armoured scales with Aphytis and Rhyzobug and spider mites with Spical Ulti-Mite . These

Whitefly

but belong to the order Hemiptera (true bugs ). Together with aphids and scale insects, they belong to the division Sternorrhyncha. The whiteflies form

Flies

herbs also causes cosmetic damage, and sometimes this can occur on such a scale that growth, particularly of young cuttings, can be retarded. Solution Finder

Rancho Los Pinos is nature's ally

markets in Asia, Europe, North America, and domestically. The large production scale, high water demand, and pest pressures challenge the Los Pinos team to seek

Apple scab

on blossoms, leaves, petioles and fruits and sometimes on twigs and bud scales. The lesions are olive-green. When spores are produced, the lesions become

Diamond back moth

forewings are dark, sometimes suffused with ochre or mixed with whitish scales. The lower one-third of the forewing is ochreous-white, with a nearly white