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The dubas “bug,”Ommatissus binotatus lybicus (Tropiduchidae), has become a threat to date palms in recent years. In Israel this bug was first observed in 1981 at Qetura, in the southern Arava. Within 2 years it had attacked an entire grove of 2,000 date palms, if the ‘Medjhool’ and ‘Deglet Noor’ varieties. The large number of planthoppers excreted great quantities of honeydew on the palms. This bivoltine planthopper overwinters in the egg stage.
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Klein, M., Venezian, A. The dubas date tropiduchid,Ommatissus binotatus lybicus, a threat to date palms in Israel. Phytoparasitica 13, 95–101 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02980886
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