Takahashia japonica - the string cottony scale - is an insect pest of ornamental- and economic trees in the Coccidae family. It is a pest of quarantine significance in the EPPO area.[1]
First detected in Italy, in Cerro Maggiore, in 2017 on Morus nigra,[2] and the United Kingdom in December 2018 in Berkshire on Magnolia.[3] T. japonica was then found in Croatia in 2019 in Pula, but was not identified until found again on Albizia julibrissin in May of 2020.[4][5]
Takahashia japonica - the string cottony scale - is an insect pest of ornamental- and economic trees in the Coccidae family. It is a pest of quarantine significance in the EPPO area.
