The biggest challenge for avocado farmers is controlling pests that often attack avocado plants. One of the pests on avocado plants is mealybugs, whiteflies or in Latin Paracoccus marginatus. Mealybug pests are avocado plant pests that attack the leaves of avocado plants.
Location Bogor Regency, West Java Indonesia
Date 03-25-2025
ID 266854922
IDUU 7c46a651-cf22-4287-b4f4-243a5712ca8b
Original link https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266854922
The leaves of avocado plants attacked by mealybugs will have raised spots like dots but if the photo is zoomed in it will look like larvae and that is what then turns into mealybugs or Paracoccus marginatus. Avocado leaves will eventually turn black because the white powder spread by Paracoccus marginatus covers the leaf mouth or stomata.
Here are some photos of avocado plant leaves attacked by whitefly pests, whiteflies or Paracoccus marginatus. To overcome these pest attacks, you can use chemical pest control drugs or insecticides and you can also make your own concoctions in the form of herbal medicines or natural medicines, one of which uses a solution of soursop leaf juice added with a soap solution sprayed on the leaves of the plant repeatedly.