Susceptibility of avocado varieties to the long-tailed mealybug,Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti) (Homoptera: pseudococcidae), and a survey of its host plants in Israel

Abstract

The common avocado varieties grown in Israel can be graded in descending order of susceptibility to the long-tailed mealybug,Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti), as follows: Hass, Nabal, Fuerte, Ettinger. The long-tailed mealybug was recorded in Israel on 36 host-plants belonging to 29 different botanical families.