Papaya Mealybug and Its Biological Control - A Review
Dipankar Dey
Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Paracoccus marginatus, Acerophagus papaya, Pseudleptomastix Mexicana, Anagyrus loecki
Abstract
The papaya mealybug Paracoccus marginatus is likely to invade several countries in the World. Several methods like cultural, chemical, legal and biological have been adopted to tackle the mealybug problem. However only chemical and biological control methods have been widely practiced for the management of mealybugs. Only the host specific parasitoids have given control of P. marginatus. More specifically the hymenopteran parasitoid Acerophagus papayae played a predominant role in suppressing the papaya mealybug in several countries.
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