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August 2020

Persimmon fruit infested by Pseudococcus comstocki

Persimmon fruit infested by Pseudococcus comstocki

The mealybug hides on the peduncle, beneath the leaf-like calyx, so the infestation is invisible until grading. Why it is Pseudococcus comstocki and not Planococcus citri, how a hand lens tells them apart, and why that changes the spray from August to the April hatch.

Persimmon