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    Icerya purchasi (common name: cottony cushion scale) is a scale insect that feeds on more than 80 families of woody plants, most notably on Citrus and...
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    condition in the crustaceans. Several species of Icerya, including the pestiferous cottony-cushion scale, I. purchasi, are known to be hermaphrodites that reproduce...
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    insects are serious commercial pests, notably the cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi) on Citrus fruit trees; they are difficult to control as the scale...
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    which likes P. anomalum fruit and seeds. The cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi) is a common pest on ornamental pittosporums (in particular the New...
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  • (European spruce sawfly) Hypogeococcus pungens (cactus mealybug) Corsica Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale) Thaumastocoris peregrinus (bronze bug) Sicily...
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    are found in the tropics than elsewhere. The cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi, is a serious commercial pest on many families of woody plants, including...
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    S2CID 23849389. Royer M (1975). "Hermaphroditism in Insects. Studies on Icerya purchasi". In Reinboth R (ed.). Intersexuality in the Animal Kingdom. Berlin...
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    various aphids, mites, and leafhoppers, the cotton cushiony scale (Icerya purchasi), and root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.). It can be attacked by...
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    leaves a trail of characteristic "beads" behind. Cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi), an Australian bug, soft wax scale (Ceroplastes destructor), an import...
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    Hemiptera) Cottony cushion scale (order Hemiptera: family Coccoidea) Icerya purchasi – This scale infests twigs and branches. The mature female is oval...
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    from Australia to California to control the cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi. This had become a major problem for the newly developed citrus industry...
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    Indian subterranean termite) Hypogeococcus pungens (Cactus mealybug) Icerya purchasi (Cottony cushion scale) Incisitermes minor (Western drywood termite)...
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  • axyridis (Asian lady beetle) Hypogeococcus pungens (cactus mealybug) Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale) Lasius neglectus (invasive garden ant) Leptinotarsa...
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    Biological control: larval Novius cardinalis feeding on Icerya purchasi...
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    is not possible. It is an active predator of cottony cushion scale Icerya purchasi. N. cardinalis was accidentally introduced to New Zealand, though they...
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  • Deroceras laeve (marsh slug) Electroma sp., a genus of Vulsellidae Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale) Linepithema humile (Argentine ant) Lissachatina...
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    attacked orange trees in the United States was the cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi), imported from Australia to California in 1868. Within 20 years, it...
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  • ] According to Gerald A. Kerkut the species is might be similar to Icerya purchasi. As of 2008 it was one of the three insect species where hermaphroditism...
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    Arthur Purchas: Omphalorissa purchasi, a New Zealand snail discovered by Purchas and Ferdinand von Hochstetter. Icerya purchasi, cottony cushion scale, a...
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  • debelius Lysmata galapaguensis Lysmata cf. trisetacea Insects Icerya bimaculata Icerya purchasi Crypticerya zeteki Salvatoria clavata Ophryotrocha gracilis...
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    Novius iceryae was used to successfully control cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi in South Africa. It was later introduced in New Zealand for the management...
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  • products such as biopesticides. Cottony cushion scale Icerya purchasi Management of Icerya purchasi populations is a well-known early success for classical...
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  • postica (alfalfa weevil) [83] Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) [84] Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale) [85] Latrodectus geometricus (brown widow)...
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  • of Novius amabilis is about 3.25 mm. The species is a predator of Icerya purchasi, and Saccharicoccus sacchari. "Further notes on the Indian species...
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  • flower thrips) Globodera rostochiensis (yellow potato cyst nematode) Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale) Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado potato...
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    Phyllosticta arisari and Melanustilospora arisari. The scale insect Icerya purchasi also feeds on Arisarum. Mansion, G., Rosenbaum, G., Schoenenberger...
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    article, largely based on his work, appeared posthumously in 1891. Icerya purchasi Cottony cushion mite (also known as "Australian bug" or "fluted scale")...
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  • winged sharpshooter) [17] Hypogeococcus pungens (cactus mealybug) Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale) Leptocybe invasa (Blue gum chalcid wasp) [18]...
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  • americanus (American lobster) Hypogeococcus pungens (cactus mealybug) Icerya purchasi (cottony cushion scale) Isometrus maculatus (lesser brown scorpion)...
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    in the introduction of Rodolia cardinalis from Australia to control Icerya purchasi. He was also involved in the introduction of Rhyzobius ventralis to...
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