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This document is EENY-233 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 158), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: August 2001. Revised: October 2002.
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