Common Insects

Agriculture Career Development: Plant Science & Agronomy

Unit 2 – Agronomy

Damage Classification:None or Predatory

Assassin Bug

Green Lacewing

Honeybee

Lady Beetle Larva

Damage Classification:Destruction of fruit or flower

Boll Weevil

Corn Ear Worm Larva

Grain Weevil

Pink Bollworm Larva

Damage Classification:Destruction of vegetative parts

Alfalfa Weevil

Armyworm Larva

Bean Leaf Beetle

Blister Beetle

Colorado Potato Beetle

Corn Rootworm

Larva

Cricket

Cutworm Larva

European Corn Borer Larva

Flea Beetle

Grasshopper

Japanese Beetle

Leaf Skeletonizer

Mexican Bean Beetle

Salt Marsh CaterpillarWooly Worm

Spotted Cucumber Beetle/

Southern Corn Rootworm Beetle

Tobacco Hornworm LarvaTomato Hornworm Larva

Western Corn Rootworm Beetle

White Grub

Wireworm

Damage Classification:Destruction by removal of plant fluids

Aphids

Chinch Bugs

Leafhopper

Lygus

Scale

Spider Mite

Spittlebug

Stinkbug

Western Flower Thrip

Whitefly

European Corn Borer Larva - Photo by Keith Weller

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/nov97/fung1197.htm

 

Japanese Beetle

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/housing/japanese-beetle/jbeetle.html

 

Leaf Skeletonizer

http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/conservation_research/ecology_research/Ecology_of_Cumberland_Plain_Woodland/woodland_wildlife/invertebrate_animals/ecnolagria_grandis

 

Flea Beetle

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=10522

 

Cricket Grasshopper Stinkbug

Photos.com- 2007 Jupiterimages Corporation

 

Tobacco/Tomato Hornworm Larva

http://entomology.unl.edu/k12/caterpillars/hornworm/hornwormpage.html

 

White Grub

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/espanol/kids/insects/story10/WhiteGrub.jpg

 

Spittlebug

http://www.nps.gov/archive/acad/flow/plot4.html

Lygus

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Business/docs.htm?docid=3695&pf=1&cg_id=0

Common Insects - Credits

Common Insects - CreditsCorn Ear Worm Larva - Photo by Scott Bauerhttp://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/1998/980312.htm Grain Weevilhttp://www.whatsthatbug.com/Weevils.html Pink Bollworm Larvahttp://ipmnet.org/cicp/crops/cotton.htm Alfalfa Weevilhttp://insects.tamu.edu/extension/youth/bug/bug063.html Armyworm Larvahttp://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=7596&pf=1&cg_id=0http://ipmnet.org/cicp/crops/cotton.htm Blister Beetle - National Biological Information Infrastructurehttp://images.nbii.gov/details.php?id=56016 Colorado Potato Beetlehttp://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=12124 Corn Rootworm Larvahttp://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/may98/root0598.htmhttp://www.ars.usda.gov/is/ar/archive/jan03/corn0103.htm

Mexican Bean Beetle - Photo by Stephen Ausmus.http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jun06/viral0606.htm

Common Insects – CreditsAssassin bughttp://www.parks.ca.gov/image_view.asp?src=../pages/639/images/robust%20assassin%20bug.jpg&id=9206http://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/house/yard/problems/goodbugs.cfm?entityID=100&ModeID=632&grp=biorem HoneybeeLady Beetle LarvaGreen Lacewinghttp://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/house/yard/problems/goodbugs.cfm?entityID=101&ModeID=632&grp=biorem ScaleSpider MiteCutworm Larvahttp://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/house/yard/problems/troublepests.cfm?entityID=58&grp=pest Aphidshttp://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=12124http://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/house/yard/problems/troublepests.cfm?entityID=58&grp=pest Whiteflyhttp://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=12124http://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/house/yard/problems/troublepests.cfm?entityID=58&grp=pest Boll Weevilhttp://oars.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/pdmp/cotton/bollweevil/bw-illustration.html

Leafhopperhttp://ars.usda.gov/is/ar/archive/may05/viral0505.htm