mealy bug

1. Scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion;
   Destructive especially of fruit trees (synset 102253474)
   is a type of: coccid insect - scale insects and mealybugs
   subtypes:

   • citrophilous mealybug, citrophilus mealybug, pseudococcus fragilis - destructive especially to citrus
   • comstock mealybug, comstock's mealybug, pseudococcus comstocki - Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States; pest on citrus and apple trees
   • citrus mealybug, planococcus citri - feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially destructive to citrus
   belongs to: family pseudococcidae, pseudococcidae - scalelike insects: mealybugs
   same as: mealybug

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