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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Scales and Mealybugs (Coccoidea) » Mealybugs (Pseudococcidae) » Planococcus » Citrus Mealybug (Planococcus citri)
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Citrus Mealybug on, uh, Citrus. - Planococcus citri
Copyright © 2007 Ron Hemberger

Citrus Mealybug on, uh, Citrus. - Planococcus citri
Ron's house, Irvine, Orange County, California, USA
November 17, 2005
The mealybugs are being tended by Argentine ants (Linepithema humile), by far the most common here in Orange County. The "farm" is on an unripe lemon, on one of two citrus trees at the end of my drive. The other, a Satsuma mandarin, has been untouched by these critters.

At a now defunct website (9-5-2013) the scale appeared to be identical to that on my lemon tree. Apparently, most of the research on this citrus pest has been done on Satsumas, chiefly in Japan.

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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 13 August, 2007 - 7:44pm
Last updated 5 September, 2013 - 5:57pm

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