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Musgraveia sulciventris is a large stink bug found in Australia, sometimes known as the bronze orange bug. It is considered a pest, particularly to plants in the citrus group. [ 1 ] Bronze orange bugs suck the sap from trees, which causes the flowers and fruit to fall.
Although citrus is the main crop attacked by red scale, it can also be found on species from at least seventy-seven plant families [9] and has been successfully reared in the laboratory on potato tubers and pumpkin. [10] Scale insects of all ages feed by sucking sap. They are found on all parts of the plant but are most noticeable on the fruit.
The citrus blackfly is found on over 300 host plant species, [4] but citrus trees such as lemon, orange and pomelo are most heavily infested. Noncitrus trees and shrubs, when they grow by themselves, are not normally attacked by this insect, but they may be when they grow close to heavy infestations on citrus.
Oemona hirta, the lemon tree borer, also known as the whistling beetle or the singing beetle, is a longhorn beetle endemic to New Zealand. [1] Its larvae are generalist feeders, boring into the wood of a wide variety of trees, native and introduced.
Diaphorina citri, the Asian citrus psyllid, is a sap-sucking, hemipteran bug now in the taxonomic family Liviidae. [1] It is one of two confirmed vectors of citrus greening disease . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It has a wide distribution in southern Asia and has spread to other citrus growing regions.
The bugs have killed millions of ash tress across the country, and all 16 species of the tree are susceptible to attack, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
Planococcus citri, commonly known as the citrus mealybug, is a species of mealybugs native to Asia. It has been introduced to the rest of the world, including Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, as an agricultural pest. It is associated with citrus, but it attacks a wide range of crop plants, ornamental plants, and wild flora. [1]
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