Icerya purchasi (common name: cottony cushion scale) is a scale insect that feeds on more than 80 families of woody plants, most notably on Citrus and...

Australia. Icerya aegyptiaca (Douglas 1890). Icerya albolutea Cockerell 1898. Icerya bimaculata De Lotto 1959. Icerya brachystegiae Hall 1940. Icerya brasiliensis...

insects are serious commercial pests, notably the cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi) on Citrus fruit trees; they are difficult to control as the scale...

notabilis), which likes P. anomalum fruit and seeds. The cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi) is a common pest on ornamental pittosporums (in particular the...

S2CID 23849389. Royer M (1975). "Hermaphroditism in Insects. Studies on Icerya purchasi". In Reinboth R (ed.). Intersexuality in the Animal Kingdom. Berlin...

Biological control: larval Novius cardinalis feeding on Icerya purchasi...

air is not possible. It is an active predator of cottony cushion scale Icerya purchasi. N. cardinalis was accidentally introduced to New Zealand, though...

attacked orange trees in the United States was the cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi), imported from Australia to California in 1868. Within 20 years...

source?] According to Gerald A. Kerkut the species is might be similar to Icerya purchasi. As of 2008 it was one of the three insect species where hermaphroditism...

include various aphids, mites, and leafhoppers, the cotton cushiony scale (Icerya purchasi), and root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.). It can be attacked...