In the May episode of the All In For Citrus podcast, Lauren Diepenbrock, an entomologist with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), discusses her research on the lebbeck mealybug. The pest was first identified in Florida in the Boynton Beach area in 2009 in a natural habit.
The pest has been confirmed in most of Central and South Florida, and Diepenbrock says, it is probably just a matter of time before it is found further north in the state.
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