Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) infesting apple, apricot, pear trees and their abundant parasitoids in Egypt | ||
| Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology | ||
| Article 2, Volume 5, Issue 1, April 2012, Pages 25-29 PDF (139.7 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/eajbsa.2012.14904 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Shaaban Abd-Rabou; Noha Ahmed; Hoda Badary | ||
| Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Scale insects are the major pests infesting apple, apricot and pear trees in Egypt. The aim of the present work is to study a survey of scale insects infesting apple, apricot, pear trees and their abundant parasitoids in Egypt. A survey of scale insects infested apple, apricot, pear trees and their abundant parasitoids were carried out all over Egypt during 2009-2011. The results indicated that apple, apricot and pear trees were infested by 19, 10 and 10 scale insect species and associated with 12,6 and 8 parasitoid species, respectively. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| scale insects; Apple; Apricot; pear trees; Egypt | ||
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