Biological Control of Pink Hibiscus Mealybug Project Manual

Published: Mar, 04 Dic 2012, 14:09
Last updated: Mar, 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.
Resource provide by:

• NPPO of USA

Organization providing resource: United States Department of Agriculture Marketing and Regulatory Programs Animal and Plant
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: ONPF
Tags:

• Specific pest control manual

Submitted by: USDA-APHIS

Documents:
Biological_Control_of_Pink_Hibuscus_Mealvbug_Project_Manual.pdf