Management
- Covers tender growing points with white mass
- Suck the sap
- Vitality reduced
- 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
- Chilocorus sp.
- Cryptolaemus montrouzieri are efficient predator