Bamboo Mealybug: Palmicultor lumpurensis on Bambusa textilis

[Mark Meckes]

Date: 2004
Location, Texas, USA
- has recently been found on Bambusa species from central to south Texas.
(Previously detected in Florida 2002 >) (http://www.bamboocraft.net/forums/showthread.php?t=683)

Bamboo Mealybug: Palmicultor lumpurensis - on inside sheath tips of emerging Bambusa textilis shoots.
http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/data/535/thumbs/1040926-56mlybg.jpg
Photo #1 (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=871)

http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/data/535/thumbs/1040928-41mlybgBtx.jpg
Photo #2 (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=872)

http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/data/535/thumbs/1040928-39mlybgBtx.jpg
Photo #3 (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=873)