Giant Snowball Mealybug at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Monophlebulus sp. (genus) | 12 May 2023 | pmillsApio87 | ||
| Monophlebulus sp. (genus) | 25 May 2022 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Monophlebulus sp. (genus) | 25 May 2022 | TimL |
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User's notes
The insect appeared to have fallen from above and been impaled upside-down on a spike. The head end is adjacent to the penetration. Thanks to Marcus for the initial sighting within a bush.
1 comment
RogerF
wrote:
25 May 2022
This happens surpringly often!! In the northern Hemisphere it could be attrbuted to the behaviour of a bird in the shrike family
Location information
- Coordinates 149.108988-35.274080
- Altitude 612.7m
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 May 2022 12:02 PM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
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Insects Scale insects & mealybugs (Hemiptera, Coccoidea) TimL
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Monophlebulus sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Giant Snowball Mealybug Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1578.06m Recorded at altitude
- 169 images trained Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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