Mealybug

Mealybug
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
common name for certain unarmored scale insects that exude a granular white secretion, giving them a mealy appearance. Many are common greenhouse and crop pests.

Pink Mealybug in the Caribbean
National Library and Information System Authority of Trinidad and Tobago. Regional Action Programme for Control of the Pink Mealybug.
Identification/Description; Introduction History; Habitat; Dispersion; Controls ...

Sand food plants on the Algodones Dunes are sometimes infested with small ants and mealybugs. The ants may be after the small seeds, or perhaps the sweet nectar secretion from the mealybugs known as "honeydew.

Genomes Sequenced: Bugs Within Mealybugs; And Bugs Within Bugs Within Mealybugs ...

See also: Beetle, Coral, Snake, Borer, Arthropoda