Mealybug which damages peaches and plums, must be controlled twice on the 16th and 30th of this month in South Korea

The Rural Development Administration announced on the 13th that in order to increase the effectiveness of controlling ‘mulberry scale insects’, a pest that is problematic for stone fruits, control should be carried out twice this month. Mulberry scale insects, which suck the juice of stone fruits such as peaches, plums, and plums, must be controlled when they are young because when they become adults, their bodies are covered with waxy pods and chemicals cannot reach them. Moreover, adult insects harbor about 50 to 120 eggs in their bodies, so greater damage can be prevented if they are controlled when they are young. However, larvae that have just emerged from eggs are small, less than 0.3 mm in size, so it is not easy to control them. Starting this year, the Rural Development Administration has been sharing pest control information in connection with 36 agricultural technology centers in major stone fruit producing areas so that professional researchers can conduct preventive ...