Biological Control of Pink Hibiscus Mealybug Project Manual
Published: Tue, 04 Dec 2012, 14:09Last updated: Tue, 12 May 2015, 11:33
The pink hibiscus mealybug (PHM), Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green), is a serious economic threat to agriculture, forestry, and the nursery industry. This pest attacks many plants, trees, and shrubs. It infests hibiscus, citrus, coffee, sugar cane, annonas, plums, guava, mango, okra, sorrel, teak, mora, pigeon pea, peanut, grape, maize, asparagus, chrysanthemum, beans, cotton, soybean, and cocoa, just to name a few of its hosts. The USDA-APHIS is charged with protecting American agriculture from exotic plant pests like PHM. APHIS considers PHM a pest of extremely serious quarantine importance that has the potential to expand its geographical distribution to North, Central, and South America. Two units of APHIS and International Services (IS), are cooperating in a biological control project aimed at controlling PHM in the Caribbean. This project will serve as a model to start a biological control program in the mainland U.S. when PHM arrives. The purpose of this manual is to guide USDA personnel and cooperators in setting up and maintaining these biological control programs.
Resources on this page are not intended to be interpretations of ISPMs and terminology used may not be consistent with ISPM 5. Unless otherwise indicated resources, or pest distributions contained within them are not endorsed/adopted/agreed by the CPM nor developed under the auspices of the IPPC Secretariat, and are the exclusive responsibility of the author of the contributed phytosanitary resource.
Resource provide by:- NPPO of USA
Author/Editor name and address: D. E. Meyerdirk, R. Warkentin, B. Attavian, E. Gersabeck, USDA APHIS A.Francis, M.Adams, G. Francis St. Kitts Department of Agriculture, Basseterr
Type of contact: NPPO
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Biological_Control_of_Pink_Hibuscus_Mealvbug_Project_Manual.pdf