VCE Entomology: Insect Factsheets

August 1996

Insect Factsheets

• Ornamentals
• Household
• General
• Vegetables
• Fruits and Nuts
• Lawns and Turf
• Human
• Field Crops

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Ornamentals

• Coleoptera (Beetles)
• Diptera (Flies)
• Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moths)
• Hemiptera (True Bugs)
• Homoptera (Leafhoppers/Scale/Aphids)
• Hymenoptera (Ants/Bees/Wasp)
• Acari (Mites)
• Other

Household

• Coleoptera (Beetles)
• Diptera (Flies)
• Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moths)
• Hemiptera (True Bugs)
• Hymenoptera (Ants/Bees/Wasp)
• Acari (Mites)
• Other

General

• Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moths)
• Homoptera (Leafhoppers/Scale/Aphids)
• Other

Vegetables

• Diptera (Flies)

Fruits and Nuts

• Coleoptera (Beetles)
• Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moths)

Lawns and Turf

• Homoptera (Leafhoppers/Scale/Aphids)

Human

• Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moths)

Field Crops

• Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moths)

Ornamentals - Coleoptera (Beetles)

• Bark Beetles
• Cucumber Beetles
• Dogwood Twig Borer
• Japanese Weevil
• Locust Borer
• Locust Leafminer
• Longhorned Beetles/Roundheaded Borers
• Pales Weevil
• Pine Sawyers
• Redheaded Ash Borer
• Southern Pine Beetle
• Tulip Tree Leaf Minor
• Twig Girdler & Twig Pruner
• Willow (Imported) Leaf Beetle

Ornamentals - Diptera (Flies)

• Boxwood Mite/Leafminer
• Holly Leafminer & Mature Holly Leafminer
• Iris Borer

Ornamentals - Lepidiptera (Butterflies/Moths)

• Bagworm
• Catalpa Sphinx Caterpillar
• Dogwood Borer
• Fall Webworm
• Juniper Webworm
• Lilac Borer
• Mimosa Webworm
• Nantucket Pine Tip Moth

Ornamentals - Hemiptera (True Bugs)

• Lace Bugs
• Tarnished Plant Bug

Ornamentals - Homoptera (Leafhoppers/Scale/Aphids)

• Balsam Twig Aphid
• Balsam Woolly Adelgid
• Cottony Maple Scale
• Euonymus Scale
• Gloomy Scale
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
• Hickory Leaf Stem Gall Aphid
• Juniper Scale
• Magnolia Soft Scale
• Obscure Scale
• Oyster Scale
• Pine Bark Adelgid
• Pine Needle Scale
• Pine Tortoise Scale
• San Jose Scale
• Scale Insects
• Tulip Tree Scale
• Wax Scale

Ornamentals - Hymenoptera (Ants/Bees/Wasp)

• Blackheaded Pine Sawfly
• European Horner
• European Rose Slug
• Introduced Pine Sawfly
• Redheaded Pine Sawfly
• Virginia Pine Sawfly

Ornamentals - Acari (Mites)

• Boxwood Mite/Leafminer
• Maple Gall Mites
• Pine Bud Mite/Needle Sheath Mite

Ornamentals - Other

• Galls

Household - Coleoptera (Beetles)

• Bark Beetle
• Carpet Beetle
• Cigarette Beetle
• Click Beetle
• Confused Flour Beetle
• Elm Leaf Beetle
• Flatheaded Borer
• Ground Beetle
• Larder Beetle
• Mealworm
• Old House Borer
• Powderpost Beetle
• Roundheaded Borer
• Saw Toothed Grain Beetle
• Soldier Beetle
• Wood Cockroach

Household - Diptera (Flies)

• Blow Fly
• Blow Fly Maggot
• Cluster Fly
• Darking Beetle
• Drain Fly
• Drug Store Beetle
• Fruit Fly
• Fungus Gnat
• House Fly Maggot
• Midges
• Mosquito
• Puss Caterpillar

Household - Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moths)

• Buck Moth Caterpillar
• Clothes Moth
• Hackberry Leaf Slug
• Hagmoth
• Hickory Horned Devil
• IO Moth
• Indian Meal Moth
• Saddleback Caterpillar

Household - Hemiptera (True Bugs)

• Bed Bugs
• Boxelder Bug
• Wheel Bug

Household - Hymenoptera (Ants/Bees/Wasp)

• Baldfaced Hornet
• Bumble Bee
• Carpenter Ant
• Carpentere Bee
• Crematogaster
• Firebrat
• Honey Bee
• Paper Wasp
• Parasitic Wasp
• Pavement Ant
• Sweat Bee
• Velvet Ant
• Yellow Ant
• Yellow Jacket

Household - Acari (Mites)

• Black Widow Spider
• Brown Recluse Spider
• Deer Tick

Household - Other

• American Cockroach
• Booklice
• Brownbanded Cockroach
• Centipede
• Earwigs
• Fleas
• German Cockroach
• Giant European Hornet
• Millipede
• Oriental Cockroach
• Silverfish
• Spiders
• Springtail
• Termites
• Wolf Spider

General - Lepidoptera(Butterflies/Moths)

• Giant Moths

General - Homoptera (Leafhoppers/Scale/Aphids)

• Aphids
• Scale Insects

Other

• Psocids

Vegetables - Diptera (Flies)

• Cabbage & Seedcorn Maggot

Fruits and Nuts - Coleoptera (Beetles)

• Flatheaded Apple Tree Borer

Fruits and Nuts - Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moth)

• Eastern Tent Caterpillar
• Lesser Peach Tree Borer
• Peach Tree Borer

Lawns and Turf - Homoptera (Leafhoppers/Scale/Aphids)

• European Rose Slug

Human - Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moths)

• Stinging Caterpillars

Field Crops - Lepidoptera (Butterflies/Moths)

• European Corn Borer

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