Insect Pests of Fruit, Plantation, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops (2+1)

2. Striped mealy bug

2. Striped mealy bug - Ferrisia virgata Ckll. (Psedococcidae: Hemiptera)

Damage

• Yellowing of leaves in older plants.
  
• Under surface of leaves and terminal shoots covered with white mealy mass.
Bionomics

• The female mealy bug lays 185-409 eggs during an oviposition period of 20-29 days.
  
• The egg period is 3-4 hours.
  
• The nymph undergoes 4 instars.
  
• The nymphal period is 26-47 days.
  
• Adult female lives for 36-53 days and male for 1 - 3 days.