wn body that is coated with white and yellow wax. The adult ‘females’ are easily recognized by their large size (up to 10 mm long), red-brown body…
Heteropteran bugs are insects which have flattened bodies and fold their wings flat over their body when at rest. The wings overlap each other…
(Planococcus citri) , but its body is covered with a thicker layer of wax, the filaments around the body are longer (20-50% of the body size) and the…
shape and has no wings. The body is covered with a fine waxy material and have 18 pairs of wax rods round the edge of the body, and two slightly…
transverse black bands across the body. The antennae are 0.7-1.0 times the body length, reaching to the siphunculi. The body length is 1.2-2.3 mm.…
which are at least the length of the body itself. The length of the other filaments is roughly half the width of the body. The female is 3 - 4 mm…
rods round the edge of the body, and two slightly longer ‘tail filaments’ . The tail filaments are always shorter than 20% of body length. They…
inside the mealybug’s body and form a pupa. The newly hatched Permipar wasp emerges from the pupa and escapes through the mealybug’s body through a…
paralyzing toxin that also starts predigestion of the body contents. The larva then sucks out the body fluids, leaving the dead aphid hanging by its…
reddish-brown with dark spots. In later instars the head is mottled, and the body is marked with three prominent longitudinal dark bands with numerous…
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