Important Insect Plant Pests and their Hosts in
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Important Insect Plant Pests and their Hosts in Florida Kirk W. Martin CBSP USDA-National Needs Fellow Graduate Student-University of Florida Plant Medicine Program and IPM Apprentice-IPM Florida Denise D. Thomas D. P. M. University of Florida Plant Medicine Program and IPM Florida
Adult Larva (instars) Egg 5 -6 mm Up to 9 mm 0. 6 mm x 0. 4 mm Banded Cucumber Beetle - Diabrotica balteata Vegetable Pest
Adult Larva 5 mm Five instars Egg Yellow-margined Leaf Beetle - Microtheca ochroloma Vegetable Pest
Adult Larva (instars) Egg 2 -3. 5 mm Up to 5 mm 0. 5 mm x 0. 4 mm Pepper Weevil - Anthonomus eugenii Vegetable Pest
Adult Larva Egg 12 mm (Pupa) 0. 9 mm x 0. 6 mm White-fringed Beetle - Naupactus (=Graphognathus) spp. Fruit & Vegetable Pest
Adult Larva Egg 17 -21 mm Three instars 2. 4 mm x 1. 5 mm White Grubs - Phyllophaga spp. Vegetable, Fruit, Turf, Tree, Ornamental & Field Crop Pest
Adult Larva Egg 2 -4 mm Up to 7 mm 1. 5 x 1. 0 mm Southern Pine Beetle - Dendroctonus frontalis Tree Pest
Adult Larva 8 -14 mm Southern Blue-Green Citrus Root Weevil - Pachnaeus litus Fruit Pest Egg
Adult Larva 8. 4 -14 mm Northern Blue-Green Citrus Root Weevil - Pachnaeus opalus Fruit Pest Egg
Adult Larva 5. 1 -6. 4 mm Little Leaf Notcher (Citrus Root Weevil) - Artipus floridanus Fruit Pest Egg
Adult Larva Egg 9 -15 mm 6 -18 instars Up to 20 mm 1. 2 mm x 0. 4 mm Diaprepes Root Weevil - Diaprepes abbreviatus Fruit, Ornamental, Field Crop & Vegetable Pest
Adult Larva Egg 11 -16 mm Five instars Up to 20 mm 2 mm x 1 mm Mexican Bromeliad Weevil - Metamasius callizona Ornamental Pest
Adult Larva 7 -8 mm Asian Grey Weevil - Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus Ornamental Pest Egg
Adult Larva Egg 6 -11 mm 9 -16 mm 2 -3 mm Hunting Billbug - Sphenophorus venatus vestitus Turf Pest
Adult 19 -30 cm Palmetto Weevil - Rhynchophorus cruentatus Ornamental & Tree Pest Larva Egg
Adult Larva Egg 12 -17 mm 16 -25 mm 2. 5 mm Twig Girdler - Oncideres cingulata Tree Pest
Adult Larva Egg 2 mm (Female) 1 mm (Male) 2 mm 0. 5 mm Black Twig Borer - Xylosandrus compactus Tree Pest
Many thanks to those that contributed to this project Photographs by: – Lyle Buss, UF Entomology and Nematology – Dr. Paul Choate, UF Entomology and Nematology – Dr. John Capinera, Chair, UF Entomology and Nematology – Dr. Norman Leppla, Director IPM Florida, UF Entomology and Nematology – Dr. Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University - Dept. , Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management , Bugwood. org – John Folz, , Emeritus Faculty, UF Entomology and Nematology Photographs by: –Dr. Russ Ottens, University of Georgia, Bugwood. org –Tracy Conklin, UF Entomology and Nematology –Larry Williams, Okaloosa County Extension –Natasha Wright, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Bugwood. org –Dr. James Castner, UF Entomology and Nematology –Dr. Wayne Dixon, Florida Division of Plant Industry –USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Southern Region
Many thanks to those that contributed to this project Contributors: – – Dr. Norman Leppla, Director-IPM Florida, UF Entomology and Nematology Dr. Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman, Associate Director IPM Florida, UF Entomology and Nematology – – – Lyle Buss, UF Entomology and Nematology Joyce Merritt, Publications Specialist, IPM Florida and Plant Medicine Program Kevyn Juneau, Research Assistant IPM Florida, UF Entomology and Nematology
References • • • Capinera, J. L. , 2001 Handbook of Vegetable Pests. Academic Press: San Diego Hodges, A. , Hodges, G. , Buss, L. , Osborne, L. , 2005 Mealybugs& Mealybug Look-Alikes of the Southeastern United States Stehr, F. W. 1987. Immature Insects. Volumes I and II. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company C. Malcolm Beck and John Howard Garrett, 2005 Texas Bug Book The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Revised Edition. University of Texas Press: Austin, TX. Short, D. E. , Simone, G. W. , Dunn, R. A. (Eds. ), 2001 Commercial Ornamental Nursery Scouting Manual. Department of Entomology and Nematology, Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida: Gainesville, FL.
