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Mealybugs and ants on a fruit of noni (Morinda citrifolia).

Mealybugs and their feeding damage to a Samoan coconut (Cocos nucifera).

Definition

A meaybug is any of various homopterous insects, especially of the family Pseudococcidae, some of which are destructive to citrus trees and other plants.

Discussion

Mealybugs can be serious economic pests of plants and insome cases can vector plant pathoegns.