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

Southern Chinch Bug - Blissus insularis

Turf Pest

Adult Larva Egg

4 mm 0.8 x 0.3 mm

Brown Stink Bug - Euschistus servus

Field Crop, Fruit & Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

11-15 mm Five instarsUp to 10 mm

1.4 mm x 1.2 mm

Southern Green Stink Bug - Nezara viridula

Ornamental, Field Crop, Fruit & Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

13-17 mm Five instarsUp to 10 mm

1.3 mm x 0.9 mm

Harlequin Bug - Murgantia histrionica

Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

8-12 mm Five to six instars

1.3-1.4 mm

Silverleaf Whitefly - Bemisia argentifolii or Bemisia tabaci

Field Crop, Ornamental & Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

1 mm Four instarsUp to 1 mm

0.2 mm

Citrus Whitefly - Dialeurodes citri

Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

< 4.3 mm (Wingspan)

0.25 mm

Cloudywinged Whitefly - Singhiella citrifolii

Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

1 mm Up to 1 mm 0.3 mm

FDACS/DPI

Citrus Blackfly - Aleurocanthus woglumi

Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

1-2 mm Up to 1 mm

Green Peach Aphid - Myzus persicae

Ornamental, Field Crop, Vegetable & Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2 mm Five instars 0.6 mm x .3 mm

Cabbage Aphid - Brevicoryne brassicae

Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2 mm Four instars 0.7 mm x 0.2 mm

Melon Aphid - Aphis gossypii

Ornamental, Field Crop, Vegetable & Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

1-2 mm Up to 1 mm None

Potato Aphid - Macrosiphum euphorbiae

Ornamental & Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2-4 mm Four instarsUp to 2 mm

None

Brown Citrus Aphid - Toxoptera citricida

Ornamental & Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

3 mm Up to 3 mm None

Pink Hibiscus Mealybug - Maconellicoccus hirsutus

Ornamental Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2-3 mm (Female) Three instars (Female)

Two instars & Two pupal stages

(Male)Up to 2 mm

0.4 mm x 0.2 mm

Papaya Mealybug - Paracoccus marginatus

Fruit & Ornamental Pest

Adult Larva Egg

About 3 mm Females wingless Male

winged

Three instars

Longtailed Mealybug - Pseudococcus longispinus

Fruit, Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

3 mm (Body)

Asiatic Citrus Psyllid - Diaphorina citri

Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

3-4 mm Five instarsUp to 2 mm

0.3 mm

Cycad Aulacaspis Scale - Aulacaspis yasumatsui

Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

1-2 mm (Female)

Up to 1 mm (Male)

Tea Scale - Fiorinia theae

Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

Up to 2 mm

False Oleander Scale - Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli

Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2-3 mm (Female)

1 mm (Male)

Citrus Snow Scale - Unaspis citri

Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

Up to 2 mm (Female)

White Peach Scale - Pseudaulacaspis pentagona

Fruit, Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2-3 mm (Female)

<1 mm (Male)

Green Scale - Coccus viridis

Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

3 mm

Florida Wax Scale - Ceroplastes floridensis

Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2-4 mm

Hemispherical Scale - Saissetia coffeae

Ornamental & Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2-5 mm 1 mm (Crawler)

0.7 mm

Pyriform Scale - Protopulvinaria pyriformis

Ornamental & Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

Up to 3 mm

Cottony Cushion Scale - Icerya purchasi

Fruit Pest

Adult Larva Egg

5 mm

Lobate Lac Scale - Paratachardina pseudolobata

Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

1-2 mm

Leaf-footed Bug - Leptoglossus phyllopus

Ornamental, Field Crop, Fruit & Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2-3 cm

Squash Bug - Anasa tristis

Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

14-16 mm Five instarsUp to 10 mm

1.5-1.1 mm

Lantana Lace Bug - Teleonemia scrupulosa

Ornamental Pest

Adult Larva Egg

3-4 mm Five instars

Garden Fleahopper - Halticus bractatus

Vegetable Pest

Adult Larva Egg

7 mm 5 instars 0.7 mm x 0.2 mm

Glassy-winged Sharpshooter - Homalodisca coagulata

Fruit & Ornamental Pest

Adult Larva Egg

2 cm

Jadera Bug - Jadera haemataloma

Nuisance & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

10-14 mm (Winged)7-8 mm (Short-winged)

Two-lined Spittlebug - Prosapia bicincta

Turf Pest

Adult Larva Egg

6 mm Four instars

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.