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¶ … mealy bugs and systemic insecticides. It was written by Amy Willmott and Raymond Cloyd in conjunction with the Kansas State University research division. The article appeared in their August 2013 publication (Willmott, and Cloyd).
The article starts off by stating that mealy bugs are by far one of the more destructive and insidious pests that ravage greenhouses and other indoor plant landscapes. It is noted that the damage they cause can be direct or indirect. What makes the mealy bugs extremely hard to control is that they reside and implant themselves in areas where insecticides have a hard time reaching and, thus, be effective. The article notes that systemic insecticides are the best approach because it is the most likely way to get the insects to ingest a lethal dose of the poison...
Application methods for said insecticides include granular and drench (Willmott, and Cloyd).
There are a number of useful pictures and figures that appear throughout the article. The first picture shows an up-close picture of a citrus mealy bug. The second picture shows an example of a plant with a complex architecture that the mealy bug can use to escape direct contact with pesticides because they are obscured from contact with the pesticide that will kill them. The third figure in the article shows a chart that shows the different pesticides that treat mealy bugs and where the bugs that were killed were located in each instance. The figure clearly shows that stem-borne bugs are the easiest to kill with little to no efficacy for other areas (Willmott, and Cloyd). The…
Works Cited
Willmott, Amy, and Raymond Cloyd. "Mealybugs & Systemic Insecticides." Kansas
State University Research. N.p., 1 Aug. 2013. Web. 9 Sept. 2013.
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