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

6. Mealy bug - Nipaecoccus viridis mask Mask. (Pseudococcidae: Hemiptera)

Damage

• Both nymphs and adults desap the tender leaves and shoots.
Bionomics

• The adult female is dark casteneous covered with sticky cretaceous white ovi-sac.
• It lay eggs in ovisacs; which are rounded, cylindrical, and chestnut in colour.
• A single female lays about 200-400 eggs.
  
• The egg period is 7-10 days.