Important Insect Plant Pests and their Hosts in Florida

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

Kirk W. Martin CBSPUSDA-National Needs FellowGraduate 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

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White Grubs - Phyllophaga spp. Vegetable, Fruit, Turf, Tree, Ornamental & Field Crop Pest

AdultLarvaEgg17-21 mmThree instars2.4 mm x 1.5 mm2

Southern Pine Beetle - Dendroctonus frontalis Tree PestAdultLarvaEgg2-4 mmUp to 7 mm1.5 x 1.0 mm3

Palmetto Weevil - Rhynchophorus cruentatusOrnamental & Tree PestAdultLarvaEgg19-30 cm4

Twig Girdler - Oncideres cingulataTree PestAdultLarvaEgg12-17 mm16-25 mm2.5 mm5

Black Twig Borer - Xylosandrus compactusTree PestAdultLarvaEgg2 mm (Female)1 mm (Male)2 mm0.5 mm6

Longtailed Mealybug - Pseudococcus longispinusFruit, Ornamental & Tree PestAdultLarvaEgg3 mm (Body)7

Cycad Aulacaspis Scale - Aulacaspis yasumatsuiOrnamental & Tree PestAdultLarvaEgg1-2 mm (Female)Up to 1 mm (Male)8

Tea Scale - Fiorinia theaeOrnamental & Tree PestAdultLarvaEggUp to 2 mm9

False Oleander Scale - Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli Ornamental & Tree PestAdultLarvaEgg2-3 mm (Female)1 mm (Male)10

White Peach Scale - Pseudaulacaspis pentagonaFruit, Ornamental & Tree PestAdultLarvaEgg2-3 mm (Female)