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- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus abstract "The Maconellicoccus hirsutus, (also known as the pink, grape or hibiscus mealybug) is a pest of many plants, trees, and shrubs. It infests hibiscus, citrus, coffee, sugar cane, annonas, plums, guava, mango (although, mango mealybug is more problematic), okra, sorrel, teak, mora, pigeon pea, peanut, grapevine, maize, asparagus, chrysanthemum, beans, cotton, soybean, cocoa, and many other plants. The pest forms colonies on the host plant, and if left undisturbed, the colonies will grow into large masses of white waxy coverings on branches, fruiting structures, leaves, and even whole plants, including large trees.Both female and male adult hibiscus mealybugs are about one-eighth inch (3 mm) long. Female bodies are pink in color with a white waxy covering. They are wingless and appear as ovoid shapes covered by a mass of white mealy wax. Males have a pair of wings and two long waxy tails and are capable of flight.The mature female lays eggs in an egg sack of white wax, usually in clusters on the twigs, branches, and bark of the host plant, and also on the plant's leaves and terminal ends. Eggs are initially orange in color but turn pink on maturity. Egg development takes between 3 and 9 days. Eggs are minute, varying from 0.3 to 0.4 mm in length and number as many as 654 eggs per sack. In its egg stage, the hibiscus mealybug disperses most easily by wind. The wax, which sticks to each egg, also facilitates passive transport by animals or man. Reproduction may occur by means of parthenogenesis in the absence of the male.Newly hatched nymphs are called crawlers and are very mobile. They may disperse over the host, especially toward tender growing parts, or be carried away by wind, man, or animals. The nymphal stages appear much like the female in form, but the female nymphs have three instars, while male nymphs have four instars. The last instar of the male is an inactive stage with wing buds within a cocoon of mealy wax. The nymphal stages may last for as long as 30 days. The hibiscus mealybug can complete its entire life cycle in 23 to 30 days. Under optimum laboratory conditions, there can be as many as 15 generations a year.As it feeds, the hibiscus mealybug injects into the plant a toxic saliva that results in malformed leaf and shoot growth, stunting, and occasional death. Leaves show a characteristic curling, similar to damage caused by viruses. Heavily infested plants have shortened internodes leading to resetting or a \"bunchy top\" appearance. A heavy, black, sooty mold may develop on an infested plant's leaves and stems as a result of the mealybug's heavy honey-dew secretions. When fruits are infested, they can be entirely covered with the white waxy coating of the mealybug. Infestation can lead to fruit drop, or fruit may remain on the host in a dried and shriveled condition. If flower blossoms are attacked, the fruit sets poorly. In plants such as peanuts, potatoes, and some grasses, the pest has been reported to attack the root systems.This pest occurs in most tropical areas of the world, including Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Oceania. The hibiscus mealybug arrived in Egypt from India in 1912 and in Hawaii in 1984. Finally, it appeared in Grenada, Trinidad, and St. Kitts in the 1990s. It is now a very serious pest in the Caribbean where it attacks many hosts of economic importance and disrupts Caribbean agricultural trade and commerce. Wingless crawlers, nymphs, and females have been known to travel short distances over the ground to get to other host plants in adjoining fields. Agricultural commerce is also responsible for the pest's spread.".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus binomialAuthority Edward_Ernest_Green.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus class Insect.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus family Mealybug.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus family Scale_insect.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus genus Maconellicoccus.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus kingdom Animal.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus order Hemiptera.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus phylum Arthropod.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus thumbnail Pink_hibiscus_mealybug.jpg?width=300.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageExternalLink mealybug.htm.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageExternalLink fs_phphmealybug.html.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageExternalLink phm.shtml.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageID "5082493".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageLength "5305".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageOutDegree "53".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageRevisionID "621525673".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Africa.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Annona.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Arthropod.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Asia.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Asparagus.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Bean.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Caribbean.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Agricultural_pest_insects.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Grape_pests.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Insects_described_in_1908.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Scale_insects.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Chrysanthemum.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Citrus.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Cocoa_bean.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Coffee.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Cotton.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Ernest_Green.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Egypt.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Grape.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Grenada.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Guava.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Hawaii.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Hemiptera.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Hibiscus.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink India.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Insect.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Instar.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Institute_of_Food_and_Agricultural_Sciences.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Maconellicoccus.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Maize.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Mango.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Mango_mealybug.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Mealybug.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Middle_East.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Oceania.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Okra.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Parthenogenesis.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Peanut.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Pigeon_pea.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Plum.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Kitts.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Scale_insect.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Sorrel.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Soybean.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Sugarcane.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Teak.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink Trinidad.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink United_States_National_Agricultural_Library.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink University_of_Florida.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink File:Maconellicoccus_hirsutus_-_hibiscus_mealybug_-_adult_male.jpg.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLink File:Maconellicoccus_hirsutus_infested_Saman_tree.jpg.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Maconellicoccus hirsutus".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus binomial "Maconellicoccus hirsutus".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus binomialAuthority "Green , 1908".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus classis "Insecta".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus familia Mealybug.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus genus "Maconellicoccus".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus imageCaption "Female".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus name "Maconellicoccus hirsutus".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus ordo Hemiptera.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus phylum "Arthropoda".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus regnum "Animalia".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus species "M. hirsutus".
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus superfamilia Scale_insect.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Italic_title.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Taxobox.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus subject Category:Agricultural_pest_insects.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus subject Category:Grape_pests.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus subject Category:Insects_described_in_1908.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus subject Category:Scale_insects.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus hypernym Pest.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus type Animal.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus type Eukaryote.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus type Insect.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus type Species.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus type Pest.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus type Thing.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus type Q1390.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus type Q19088.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus type Q729.
- Maconellicoccus_hirsutus comment "The Maconellicoccus hirsutus, (also known as the pink, grape or hibiscus mealybug) is a pest of many plants, trees, and shrubs. It infests hibiscus, citrus, coffee, sugar cane, annonas, plums, guava, mango (although, mango mealybug is more problematic), okra, sorrel, teak, mora, pigeon pea, peanut, grapevine, maize, asparagus, chrysanthemum, beans, cotton, soybean, cocoa, and many other plants.".