Scale insects: A difficult problem that can be managed
Publication date: 23 February 2017
Fact sheet
This fact sheet provides a pest management plan for growers with background on the biology of the most common scale insects likely to be encountered in production nurseries around Australia. It was produced as part of the Hort Innovation Nursery Fund project Building the resilience and on-farm biosecurity capacity of the Australian production nursery industry (NY15002).
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NY15002
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