Long-tailed mealybug

Unlike most other mealy bugs , Pseudococcus longispinus produces no egg sac. Instead, the female bears live young, depositing already hatched first instars

Vine mealybug

The eggs are golden-yellow in color and are deposited in an cottony egg sac (ovisac) containing from 300-500 eggs. The nymphs are very similar to the

Cottony cushion scale

bright-red, oblong eggs over a period of 2 to 3 months. After leaving the egg sac, the crawlers settle along the midribs and veins of the leaves. The next two

Obscure mealybug

platelets. Eggs are laid in a sticky, foamy mass of wax threads, called an egg sac. Once the batch of eggs is laid, the female dies. First instar nymphs are

Citrus mealybug

fertilized female lays several hundreds of eggs in an elongated cottony egg sac composed of white waxy threads. Once the eggs are laid, the female shrivels