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Mealybug

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mealy bugnoun	Alternative spelling of mealybug. [Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, which secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees.]

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mealy bugnoun	Alternative spelling of mealybug. [Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, which secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees.]
citrusnoun	The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.
mealbugnoun	Alternative form of mealybug. [Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, which secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees.]
mealywingnoun	The silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia tabaci).
coccidnoun	Any of very many scale insects (including mealybugs) of the superfamily Coccoidea; especially an insect of the family Coccidae.
mealybug destroyernoun	A species of ladybug, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri, endemic to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia; it preys on mealybugs and has been widely introduced elsewhere as a biological control.
piesmatidnoun	(entomology) Any member of the family Piesmatidae, the ash-gray leaf bugs.
fungus weevilnoun	Any of the beetle family Anthribidae.
apple leaf midgenoun	A pest of apple trees (Dasineura mali, syns. Sciara mali, Malobrus mali, Perrisia mali)
woolly adelgidnoun	Any of various insects of either species Adelges piceae or Adelges tsugae.
weevilnoun	Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.
powder-post beetlenoun	Any of a group of seventy species of woodboring beetles classified in the insect subfamily Lyctinae.
bee mothnoun	(UK) Any yellow and black hawk moth, especially genus Hemaris, that resembles a bumblebee, a bumblebee moth.
fruitwormnoun	The larva of any of several moths; they are responsible for damage to many types of fruit crop.
gall midgenoun	Any insect of the Cecidomyiidae family, whose larvae damage crops and other plants, creating galls on the stems and other fleshy parts.
pitch mothnoun	Any of various small moths whose caterpillars feed on pines, causing the trees to shed resin in pitch-like masses.
lygus bugnoun	Any of the genus Lygus of plant-feeding mirid insects.
cutwormnoun	The larva of any of the many moths of the family Noctuidae, considered an agricultural pest.
pear slugnoun	The larva of the sawfly Caliroa cerasi, a major pest of fruit trees.
cabbage wormnoun	Any of various lepidopterans whose larvae feed on cabbages and other cole crops.