• Covers tender growing points with white mass
• Suck the sap
• Vitality reduced

Management

• Early detection of mealy bugs - presence of ants - indicator
• Cutting of infested twigs and leaves and burying them
• Field release of green lace wing Chrysoperla carnea
• Several species of ladybird beetles such as
  • Chilocorus sp.
  • Cryptolaemus montrouzieri are efficient predator