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Soft-bodied insects that use their piercing sucking mouthparts to feed on plant sap.
| |  | | Apple Maggots
Infest apples, plums, pears, apricots, hawthorns and crabapples.
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Large populations may produce a great amount of silk webbing on a tree, but no damage is done.
| |  | | Beet Armyworm
Damage is often characterized by skeletonization and profuse silk webbing.
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Scale are small parasitic insects that feed on plant juices.
| |  | | Cane Borer - Red-Necked
These pest usually affects rasberry and blackberry plants.
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Both fall and spring cankerworms feed on a wide variety of trees including fruit trees.
| |  | | Cherry Fruit Fly
The maggots feed on cherry flesh near the pit often causing malformed fruits.
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Feeding results in shallow, scabby, depressed areas at harvest.
| |  | | Click Beetle
These pests eat the roots of numerous plant species and young trees.
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Known as an apple and pear pest throughout the world.
| |  | | Cutworm
Cutworms feed on fruit trees and many other plants including garden vegetables and field crops.
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The larva pupates in the spring and adults emerge during the pink stage of apples.
| |  | | European Corn Borer
The European corn borer is known to feed on 250 different kinds of plants, especially sweet corn.
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Trees commonly attacked include more than 100 species of deciduous forest, shade and fruit trees.
| |  | | Flying Aphids
Large numbers of aphids on plants can cause wilting from removal of sap and the spreading of plant viruses.
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Attracted to ripened or rotting fruits and vegetables and are most common in the late summer and fall.
| |  | | Fruit Worm
Green fruitworms attack apple, cherry, plum, pear, apricot and strawberries.
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Symptoms of fungus gnat infestation are sudden wilting, poor growth, yellowing, and foliage loss.
| |  | | Greater Peach Tree Borer
The adult greater peach tree borers are moths that look more like wasps than moths.
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Gypsy moth larvae can devour up to one square foot of leaves a day.
| |  | | Hickory Shuckworm
They emerge in early June and attack until pecans are harvested.
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It differs from the peachtree borer in that the moths emerge over a long time during the summer.
| |  | | Navel Orangeworm
A major pest of sound almond, walnut, macadamia, and pistachio nuts after hull split.
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Symptoms of infestation include: mottling and browning of leaves and flowers that do not open.
| |  | | Grasshoppers
Some species occur in very large numbers and cause serious crop damage and loss of plants in pastures.
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The larvae (grubs) feed in the soil on plant roots and often damage grass lawns.
| |  | | Lace Bugs
Pests primarily of ornamental trees and shrubs, although several species infest a few vegetables.
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Many insects can be leafminers, including some flies, beetles, moths, and wasps.
| |  | | Leafroller
Young larvae feed on flat leaves, but older larvae fold the leaves in half and hold them together with webbing.
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Also known as May beetles, June bugs and June beetles.
| |  | | Oleander Scale
Can be controlled by natural enemies and does not usually cause economic damage.
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Adult moths emerge in May or June to lay eggs in orchards on leaves and fruit.
| |  | | Oriental Fruit Moth
Larvae typically enter fruit from the stem end and cause the fruit to rot.
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Symptoms of peachtree borer infestation include oozing gum at the base of the tree and yellowing of the tree.
| |  | | Peach Twig Borer
Larvae emerge in early spring, migrate up twigs and branches and attack newly emerged leaves and shoots.
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The larvae feed inside of one nut in a cluster, and then the others until all of the cluster are hollowed out.
| |  | | Pecan Weevil
The larvae feed in the nut for about 35 days, destroying the kernels.
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The red banded leafroller feeds on apple, cherry, plum, peach, grape, vegetable crops and ornamentals.
| |  | | Sap Beetle
Sap beetles are small beetles that feed on the sap from tree wounds, damaged and decaying fruits and vegetables.
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This common plant pest is closely related to spiders, daddy longlegs and ticks.
| |  | | Two-Spotted Spider Mite
They are known to feed on more than 180 different plant species- both indoor and outdoor.
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