Succulents come in many unique varieties and can be so much fun to grow. Not so much fun? A mealybug infestation! These nasty little insects attack succulents indoors and outdoors and can quickly ...

Learn the best way to eliminate these common plant pests. Mealybugs are small (between 1/20 and 1/5-inch long) and have a flat, waxy coating and oval, segmented bodies. Signs of a mealybug ...

Mealybug life cycle. The life cycle of a mealybug will depend on the species. Some female mealybugs give birth to live young, though most lay eggs. For those that lay eggs, ...

A female mealybug can lay up to 600 eggs over five to ten days, and those eggs begin to hatch within several days. The life cycle from egg to adult female is around six to ten weeks, ...

Disabling Emotet’s main attack vector made its operators look for new ways to compromise their targets. Mealybug started experimenting with malicious LNK and XLL files, but when the year 2022 ...

Several mealybug species lay their eggs in noticeable cottony sacs, and within two weeks young crawlers emerge and seek a place to feed on the plant. They often stay put but can move if disturbed.

First there was phylloxera, then the glassy-winged sharpshooter. Now a third sap-sucking insect is menacing the fabulously valuable vineyards of the Napa Valley: the vine mealybug. Like its ...

Q: My Hawthorn has white fuzz on the branches. What is this? – Kelly, Louisville A: The white fuzz is most likely the adult stage of the female Hawthorn Mealybug. The body of the female is red ...

Since the early 1900s, scientists have known that there was something particularly bizarre about mealybugs. When viewed with a microscope, the bacteria inside the abdominal cells of some mealybug ...

An invasive vine mealybug was found in Southern Oregon in 2021 and since then, vineyards have been fighting to eradicate the insect. The pest can cause significant damage to Oregon’s grape vines ...