Assertion: vedalia beetle | /r/HasProperty | rodolia cardinalis
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text: In biological control …an Australian ladybird beetle, or vedalia beetle (Rodolia cardinalis), on the cottony cushion scale in California; the limiting of the proliferation of the European rabbit in Australia by introduction of myxoma virus (which causes the disease myxomatosis); the control of Japanese beetles by Bacillus popilliae, which causes milky disease; and… Read More
text: In ladybug The Australian ladybird beetle, or vedalia beetle (Rodolia cardinalis), was brought to western North America to help combat an outbreak of cottony-cushion scale (Icerya purchasi), which threatened to ruin citrus orchards.