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THE CANADIAN APPLE MEALYBUG, PHENACOCCUS ACERIS SIGNORET, AND ITS ALLIES IN NORTHEASTERN AMERICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

George J. Rau*
Affiliation:
West New York, New Jersey

Extract

Within the past few years, two species of mealybugs have become serious pests of apple in North America. In Virginia, for some apparently unknown reason, the Japanese Comstock mealybug. Pseudococcus comstocki Kuwana, has undergone a change in its feeding habits and produced a strain that has become well adapted to feeding and reproducing on apple.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1942

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