Lalitha, N., Santha Kumar, M.V., Saha, A.K., & Nirmal Kumar, S. 2015 Report of Papaya mealy bug Paracoccus marginatus in mulberry in West Bengal. Current Biotica 9(1): 82-85
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Notes: In India, the pest was first reported from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu infesting papaya and since then a list of agricultural and horticultural crops damaged by this noxious exotic pest is growing at an alarming rate. Within a span of few months after the first record, it caused an extensive damage to the sericulture industry by spreading over 3000 acres of mulberry plantation in Tamil Nadu. Many mulberry gardens have dried up due to severe infestation and some farmers gave up sericulture due to severe infestation and uprooted mulberry
