What is it about?
The butterfly predator is indigenous and the beetle is an exotic predator. Both these predators feed on mealybugs in the filed. Sometimes when mealybug population is less, these predator feed on each other.
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Why is it important?
Both predators can be utilized in the field for the control of mealybugs and they can coexist under a high-density condition of the pest and effectively bring down the pest population.
Perspectives
Both predators can be very effectively used in mealybug control and they can coexist in the field.
Professor Melally Giddegowda Venkatesha
Bangalore University
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This page is a summary of: Inter- and intraspecific interactions in two mealybug predators Spalgis epius and Cryptolaemus montrouzieri in the presence and absence of prey, Bulletin of Entomological Research, September 2013, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0007485313000485.
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