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Tag: Pest

  • 149/150: Not your typical song scales

    149/150: Not your typical song scales

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    Brooke Freestone
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    Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Hemiptera: Sternorrhynncha: Coccoidea: Diaspididae: Quadraspidiotus: Quadraspidiotus perniciosus (Comstock, 1881) Scale bugs are some pesky critters. Belonging to the order Hemiptera, they have a defining beak like characteristic used to suck out the contents of its prey. The females are typically immobile and have a waxy scale like surface whereas the males have…

  • 135/150: This tiny mite can cause massive damage!

    135/150: This tiny mite can cause massive damage!

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    Jude Frie
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    Animalia: Arthropoda: Arachnida: Trombidiformes: Tetranycinae: Tetranychinae: Tetranychus: Tetranychus urticae (C. L. Kock, 1836) The two-spotted spider mite is of economic importance as it is a common pest worldwide.  It has been found to feed on more than 1,100 different species of plants! Including important crops such as maize, soy, citrus, apples, tomatoes, strawberries, and peppers.…

  • 111/150: See no Weevil, Hear no Weevil, Speak no Weevil

    111/150: See no Weevil, Hear no Weevil, Speak no Weevil

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    Ian Thompson
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    Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Otiorhynchus: Otiorhynchus sulcatus (Fabricius, 1775) Not all weevils are evil, but unfortunately this species of weevil is quite a pest. The black vine weevil has been found to be a pest of over 100 different wild and cultivated plants. Unfortunately, this species is not the lesser of two evils since…

  • 106/150: Thrips are tiny insects with big agricultural implications

    106/150: Thrips are tiny insects with big agricultural implications

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    Simmone Clout
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    Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Thysanoptera: Thripidae: Thripinae: Frankliniella: Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande, 1895) Western flower thrips belong to the order Thysanoptera. These insects are very small (~1mm long) and elongated with long thin wings fringed with hairs. Like true bugs, they have small piercing and sucking mouthparts on the underside for feeding on plant tissue.

  • 39/150: Are they centipedes or….??

    39/150: Are they centipedes or….??

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    Kristin Rodrigo
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    animalia: Arthropoda: Symphyla: Symphyla order incertae sedis: Scolopendrellidae Also known as symphylans or garden centipedes, pseudocentipedes are only distant relatives of true centipedes! They are actually more closely related to pauropods and millipedes of the same subphylum Myriapoda.