Subject: Daniel – Strange White Bug
Location: Hawthorne, CA
February 2, 2013 10:15 pm
Hi Daniel,
I’m pretty sure the little fat dark things in this photo are aphids, but cannot figure out what the white bug is. Can you please help?
Signature: Thanks, Anna Carreon
Hi Anna,
We cannot make out details in the black bugs to confirm if they are Aphids, but we do know that the white bug is a Mealybug, a common pest on a broad variety of plants. You can find numerous images of Mealybugs on BugGuide and the University of Minnesota Entomology website has a nice page on them as well. You should try to get rid of them while there are only a few.
Hi Daniel,
Well, I certainly should have known that. Thanks very much and I’ll go out and take care of that this morning!
Anna
Maybe a Pseudococcus sp. – a long tailed one 🙂
Your input is greatly appreciated.
Do mealybugs bite? Was bit (felt like it was sucking on me) by a bug similar to this.