Browsing Journal Articles by Subject "Icerya pattersoni;coffee;scale;Homoptera;neoteny"
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Growth, Development and Life Cycle of Icerya pattersoni (Newstead) (Homoptera: Margarodidae), a Coffee Pest in Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Zoology, 1988-02)Experiments carried out in a coffee plantation to determine the developmental period of Icerya paltersoni (Newst.) showed that the female and male scales lasted 157 and 129 days on average, respectively. The different ...