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. |