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Geococcus coffeae is a species of mealybug in the family Pseudococcidae, commonly known as the coffee root mealybug, or brown scale.
It lives underground where it inserts its mouthparts into roots and sucks the sap.
The adult female mealybug is an elongated oval shape, and grows to a length of .
It is pure white except for the reddish-brown anal lobes, which are tipped by prominent blunt hooks.
A smaller pair of chitinized hooks is located centrally on the last abdominal segment.
"Geococcus coffeae" was first described by the British mycologist and entomologist Edward Ernest Green, growing on the roots of the coffee plant, "Coffea liberica", in Suriname.
It is also known from Cuba, Costa Rica, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Colombia and Brazil, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Zanzibar, India, the Philippines and Hawaii.
It was first detected in Florida in 1958, growing on ornamental pot plants, "Dieffenbachia" and "Philodendron bipinnatifidum", and efforts were made to restrict its spread.
"Geococcus coffeae" infests the roots of a number of different plant species including grasses, coffee, mango, palms, citrus, "Cyperus", pineapple and "Syngonium".
Living underground, these mealybugs often go undetected.
Examination of the root systems of plants in pots may reveal quantities of the wax that the insects secrete.
On coffee, this mealybug prefers the smaller absorbent roots of the plant while other species such as "Dysmicoccus brevipes" and "Rhizoecus nemoralis" colonise the larger roots.
The eggs are laid in groups and covered with waxy material.
On hatching, the nymphs move a short way before piercing the roots with their mouthparts and starting to feed.
The colony of mealybugs exude wax and secrete honeydew, forming a darkish, cork-like crust, and where there are several colonies, give a knobbly appearance to the root.
This mealybug often lives in symbiosis with the ant "Acropyga exsanguis", being carried into the ant nest and tended by the ants.
The mealybugs secrete the excess fluid they ingest as "honeydew" on which the ants feed.
List of former United States Air Force installations
This is a list of former United States Air Force installations.
Does not include United States Army Air Forces facilities closed before September 1947.
Includes bases in North Africa and the United Kingdom used by Strategic Air Command and bases used by the United States Air Forces in Europe (after 1947).
Non-flying minor Air Stations not included.
Includes Occupied Austria (1945–1955), Occupied Germany (1947–1949); West Germany (1949–1990), and Occupied Berlin (West Berlin) (1947–1990)
Caribbean Lend-Lease bases inactivated in 1949, however 99-year lease signed in 1940 remains in effect, United States has right of return until 2039.
Only bases publicly disclosed by United States Air Forces Central listed.
Current status is undetermined unless noted.
Note: Former Soviet Air Forces bases **
Seized Iraqi air bases not used by the United States:
Note: Former Iraqi Air Force "Super Base" designation was given to airfields with numerous above-ground hardened aircraft-shelters and underground facilities that could shelter between four and ten aircraft on average.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, the Iraqi Air Force essentially stood down except in a few cases of self-defence against US and British air strikes.
Despite their size – or exactly because of it – most of these airfields were barely defended in 2003 and with a few exceptions, the "Super Base" facilities were captured intact with very little damage.
Most Iraqi Air Force aircraft in various conditions from being flyable to abandoned hulks (a large number were buried) were seized by the United States and its coalition partners, however it is known that Syrian and Iranian agents were busy removing radars and items from the avionics bays and cockpits.
By autumn 2004 only some 20–25 unserviceable wrecks of Iraqi aircraft and helicopters were left scattered around the many Iraqi airfields.
The destruction of the Iraqi Air Force was probably one of the most complete such actions in the history of military aviation.
Although most of the former "Super Bases" have been de-militarized and today are abandoned facilities being reclaimed by the desert, a few were refurbished and were subsequently used by Army, Air Force and Marine units.
They may form the organization of a new Iraqi Air Force equipped with surplus United States F-16, C-130 and other light aircraft.
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* In 1992 the US government changed the status of three US air bases in South Korea.
Kwang Ju Air Base, Suwon Air Base and Taegu Air Base had previously been announced as ending operations, but would instead operate at reduced levels.
15 USAF personnel were assigned to each base, and reside in former officer quarters, which was basically a small apartment.
USAF aircraft transit each base, with the personnel providing transient support and maintain USAF equipment stored at each base in case of an emergency for reactivation in which ACC and other units would deploy to them.
In addition, the ROK use the airfields as an air base and civil airport
Note: As part of a mutual defense pact, the Republic of China (Taiwan) permitted United States forces, to utilize many ROC bases between 1957–1979.
Deployments ended in 1979 as part of the drawdown of United States military forces in Asia after the end of the Vietnam War and the United States' transfer of diplomatic relations from the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the People's Republic of China in 1979.
For more information, see United States Taiwan Defense Command and 327th Air Division.
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** Note: Although active USAF use at U-Tapao ended in 1976, USAF and other DoD personnel have been temporarily deployed to the base for contingency operations in South Asia in the years since.
Also U-Tapao supports various Foreign Military Sales in South Asia and DoD military personnel assigned to United States diplomatic postings in the region.
Cyril Lloyd (British Army officer)
Major-General Cyril Lloyd (14 April 1906 - 27 July 1989) was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War.
Educated at Brighton Grammar School and the University of Cambridge, Lloyd was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 25 December 1929.
Posted to 57th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, he was promoted to lieutenant on 25 December 1932 and to captain on 8 March 1935.
He then attended the Territorial Army officers course at Staff College, Camberley in 1939.
Lloyd saw action as a staff officer with the temporary rank of major serving with 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division as part of the British Expeditionary Force in France at the start of the Second World War.
He was mentioned in dispatches and evacuated out from Cherbourg in June 1940.
He became Deputy Assistant Adjutant General to the General Staff of the Canadian Forces in July 1940 in which role he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1943 New Year Honours.
Lloyd became Assistant Director of Military Survey at the War Office in October 1943 and, after being promoted to temporary lieutenant-colonel on 27 January 1944, he became Deputy Chief of Staff for 21st Army Group in April 1944.
In this role he took part in the Normandy landings for which he was advanced to Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Lloyd went on to be Director of Army Education in December 1944, in which role he was promoted to full colonel on 11 April 1945 and to major-general on 2 July 1946.
After leaving the army he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1948 New Year Honours.
Lloyd went on to become Director-General of the City and Guilds of London Institute in 1949 and Chairman of the Associated Examining Board in 1970 before retiring in 1976.
Lloyd was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and received the Freedom of the City of London on 27 June 1949.
Lloyd married Winifred Dorothy Moore; they had one daughter.
He later married Marjorie, his ATS driver.
2013 British Athletics Championships
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It was organised by UK Athletics.
It served as a selection meeting for the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.
List of leaders of dependent territories in 2018
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ed by the United Nations, US, Russia, or by most other countries'
Vasil Garvanliev
Vasil Garvanliev (; born 2 November 1984 in Strumica), also known mononymously as Vasil, is a Macedonian singer.
He will represent North Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam.
Garvanliev was a backing vocalist for the Macedonian entry "Proud" (performed by Tamara Todevska) at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.
On 15 January 2020, it was announced that he had been internally selected by the broadcaster MRT to represent North Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam.
List of number-one country singles of 2011 (Canada)
Canada Country is a chart published weekly by "Billboard" magazine.
This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by airplay on 31 country music stations across the country as monitored by Nielsen BDS.
Songs are ranked by total plays.
As with most other "Billboard" charts, the Canada Country chart features a rule for when a song enters recurrent rotation.
A song is declared recurrent if it has been on the chart longer than 30 weeks and is lower than number 20 in rank.
These are the Canadian number-one country singles of 2011, per the BDS Canada Country Airplay chart.
Note that "Billboard" publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
Shersby
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Notable people with this surname include:
Myfanwy Matthews
Myfanwy Ann Matthews (born 29 December 1975 in Dubbo, New South Wales), is a former Australian athlete who competed in archery.
At the Australian national indoor championships held in Canberra in 1993, Matthews was second in the recurve event.
The following year she won the recurve event at the ACT archery championships.
She competed at the 1995 world archery championship in Jakarta in the lead-up to the 1996 Olympics.
Matthews represented Australia at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in the individual archery event, finishing in 48th.
Minami Ando
She was the winner of the 2016 Finlandia Open.
She has also won several medals from both the 2017 Summer Universiade and the 2019 Summer Universiade.
Cândido Sá
Cândido Cá e Sá (born November 7, 1992) is a Portuguese professional basketball player who plays for Sporting CP.
He played in the United States between 2014 and 2016 for San Jac Ravens and between 2016 and 2018 for Rutgers Scarlet Knights.
Went back to Portugal to play for the basketball section of Sporting CP.