Important Insect Plant Pests and their Hosts in Florida

Kirk W. Martin CBSPUSDA-National Needs Fellow

Graduate Student-University of Florida Plant Medicine Program andIPM Apprentice-IPM Florida

Denise D. Thomas D.P.M.University of Florida Plant Medicine Program and IPM

Florida

Banded Cucumber Beetle - Diabrotica balteata

Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva (instars) Egg

5-6 mm Up to 9 mm 0.6 mm x 0.4 mm

Yellow-margined Leaf Beetle - Microtheca ochroloma Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

5 mm Five instars

Pepper Weevil - Anthonomus eugenii

Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva(instars)

Egg

2-3.5 mm Up to 5 mm 0.5 mm x 0.4 mm

White-fringed Beetle - Naupactus (=Graphognathus) spp.

Fruit & Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

12 mm 12 mm(Pupa)

0.9 mm x 0.6 mm

White Grubs - Phyllophaga spp.

Vegetable, Fruit, Turf, Tree, Ornamental & Field Crop Pest

Adult Larva Egg

17-21 mm Three instars 2.4 mm x 1.5 mm

Southern Pine Beetle - Dendroctonus frontalis

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2-4 mm Up to 7 mm 1.5 x 1.0 mm

Southern Blue-Green Citrus Root Weevil - Pachnaeus litus

Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

8-14 mm

Northern Blue-Green Citrus Root Weevil - Pachnaeus opalus

Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

8.4-14 mm

Little Leaf Notcher (Citrus Root Weevil) - Artipus floridanus

Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

5.1-6.4 mm

Diaprepes Root Weevil - Diaprepes abbreviatus

Fruit, Ornamental, Field Crop & Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

9-15 mm 6-18 instarsUp to 20 mm

1.2 mm x 0.4 mm

Mexican Bromeliad Weevil - Metamasius callizona

Ornamental Pest

Adult Larva Egg

11-16 mm Five instarsUp to 20 mm

2 mm x 1 mm

Asian Grey Weevil - Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus

Ornamental Pest

Adult Larva Egg

7-8 mm

Hunting Billbug - Sphenophorus venatus vestitus

Turf Pest

Adult Larva Egg

6-11 mm 9-16 mm 2-3 mm

Palmetto Weevil - Rhynchophorus cruentatus

Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

19-30 cm

Twig Girdler - Oncideres cingulata

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

12-17 mm 16-25 mm 2.5 mm

Black Twig Borer - Xylosandrus compactus

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2 mm (Female)1 mm (Male)

2 mm 0.5 mm

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

– 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

Contributors:

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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.