Important Insect Plant Pests and their Hosts in Florida (Trees)

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

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

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

Longtailed Mealybug - Pseudococcus longispinus

Fruit, Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

3 mm (Body)

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)

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

Lobate Lac Scale - Paratachardina pseudolobata

Ornamental & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

1-2 mm

Jadera Bug - Jadera haemataloma

Nuisance & Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

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

Fall Webworm - Hyphantria cunea

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

25-32 mm (Wingspan)

25-32 mm

Palm Leafskeletonizer - Homaledra sabalella

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

16 mm Up to 16 mm

Eastern Tent Caterpillar - Malacosoma americanum

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

25-44 mm (Wingspan)

50-64 mm

Forest Tent Caterpillar - Malacosoma disstria

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

25-45 mm 50-64 mm

Tussock Moth - Orgyia detrita

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

25-30 mm(Wingspan males)

12-14 mm (Wingless females)

25-38 mm

Tussock Moth - Orgyia leucostigma

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

25-30 mm (Wingspan males)12-14 mm long (Wingless

females)

32 mm

Cabbage Palm Caterpillar - Litoprosopus futilis

Tree Pest

Adult Larva Egg

51 mm(Wingspan)

38 mm

American Grasshopper - Schistocerca americana

Fruit, Tree & Ornamental

Adult Larva Egg

39-42 mm (Male)48-55 mm(Female)

Six instarsUp to 45 mm

7.0-8.0 mm

Eastern Lubber Grasshopper - Romalea microptera (formerly R.

guttata) Fruit, Tree & Ornamental

Adult Larva Egg

6-8 cm

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.