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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.
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.
Citrus greening, also known as huanglongbing, associated with the presence of a bacterium Liberibacter asiaticum, is an example of a plant pathogen that has coevolved with its insect vector, the "Asian citrus psyllid", ACP, Diaphorina citri, such that the pathogen causes little or no harm to the insect, but causes a major disease which can ...
Significant pests include the cottony cushion scale, a pest of citrus fruit trees, [81] the green peach aphid and other aphids which attack crops worldwide and transmit diseases, [82] and jumping plant lice which can be plant-specific and transmit diseases, as with the Asian citrus psyllid which transmits citrus greening disease.
A major grower said this week it was abandoning its citrus growing operations, reflecting the headwinds Florida's signature crops are facing following a series of hurricanes and tree diseases.
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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