meal|y|bug

meal|y|bug
mealy bug, or meal|y|bug «MEE lee BUHG», noun.
a small, soft-bodied scale insect which covers itself with a whitish secretion. It causes considerable damage by sucking the juices of citrus trees and other plants. They comprise a family of insects.

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