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Kōrero: Insect pests of crops, pasture and forestry

Mealybugs

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Mealybugs

Mealybugs are pests of numerous horticultural crops, ornamental plants, pasture, and other ground covers such as those used on bowling greens. They are of most concern when they damage export crops, and may also act as carriers of plant viral diseases.

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Reference: AANR 6329 55 DA 23,471

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Alison Popay, Insect pests of crops, pasture and forestry – Other fruit and vegetable pests, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17989/mealybugs (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Alison Popay, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.