Biological Control of the Cassava Mealybug in Africa: A Review

By Peter Neuenschwander. 2001

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Is Cassava the Answer to African Climate Change Adaptation? (2012, background): “Cassava mealybug has been managed successfully through biological control (Neuenschwander, 2001), and so it is important that the distribution of biological control agents are also incorporated into the models to better assess the impacts on the insect pest.”
Shifting paradigms in the history of classical biological control (2018, background): “…pests such as the cassava mealybug (Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero) (Pseudococcidae) in Africa which threatened widespread food shortages (Neuenschwander 2001), and equally devastating invaders in natural areas such as the melaleuca tree in the Everglades National Park in the USA which…”
Biological control of the papaya mealybug, Paracoccus marginatus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Guam. (2004, background): “Similar successes in classical biological control programs on hemipterans in recent years are cassava mealybug, Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Africa ( Neuenschwander 2001 ), mango mealybug, Rastrococcus invadens (Williams) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in West Afri”
Benefits and risks of exotic biological control agents (2011, unknown): “manihoti, even though it is readily attacked by hyperparasitoids (Neuenschwander 2001).”