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cluing it. ]\Iaiiy articles were published broadcast in the horticultural 

 press throughout the State. Among those doing work upon the pest 

 was the writer, who published in the Pomona Journal of Entomology, 

 vol. II, p. 4, December, 1910, an article entitled "The Citrus Mealy 

 Bug," which discussed quite fully the situation as it appeared at that 



Fig. 29. — The citrus mealy bug. A, egg; B, young female; C, adult female with 

 cottony covering removed to show the ventral side. (Author's illustration.) 



time. Since then there seems to have been a general decline in the 

 attacks of the pest. Whether this is due to the artificial control 

 measures so vigorously employed or to natural enemies we are unable 

 to state, but at the present time, while there is a just recognition of 

 the seriousness of this pest, it is not held in awe, particularly by those 

 who have been actually fighting it and who are coming to feel concern- 

 ing it much as they do regarding such pests as the black, yellow, red 

 and purple scales. 



Control and Natural Enemies — A general discussion of the methods 

 of control, quarantine, etc., to be adopted against the citrus mealy bug 

 will be included at the end, as well as descriptions of the natural 

 enemies, inasmuch as these concern all the species included. 



