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What is a mealybug?

What is a mealybug? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, that secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees.
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Due to changes in cropping patterns, climatic factors, new diseases and pest spectrum such as cotton leaf curl virus, Mealybug etc.
This third edition now adds to the above several invasive species, such as glassy-winged sharpshooter, vine mealybug, and Virginia creeper.
A number of pests can affect coleus including mealybug, whitefly and red spider mite.
Green lacewings, like ladybugs, diminish aphid and mealybug populations, as well as thrips.
Acropyga spp. ants show obligate trophophoresy with mealybugs, in which newly mated queens carry a mealybug with them when founding new colonies.
For example in the citrus mealybug, males are still needed to fertilize females, but the female can eliminate his genes from her son.

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