Recent Pest Info

APHIDS

• Christmas tree aphids
• Asian woolly hackberry aphid
• Aloe vera aphid,
  Aloephagus myersi Essig

BEETLES

• Another Neotropical Longhorn Beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
• A Neotropical Longhorn Beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
• Amaryllis Weevil
• The Twobanded Japanese Weevil
• Two Asian Ambrosia Beetles - (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
• Phaedon desotonis Balsbaugh, a Coreopsis pest
• Redbay Ambrosia Beetle,
  Xyleborus glabratus
• Exotic Beetle,
  Chlorophorus strobilicola
• Two new May beetles, Phyllophaga spp.
• Asian longhorned beetle
• Small hive beetle
• A weevil, Myllocerus undatus
• Citrus longhorned beetle

BUTTERFLIES

• Lime Swallowtail

FLIES

• Zaprionus indianus Gupta (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
• Pigeonpea Pod Fly, Melanagromyza obtusa
  

FRUIT FLIES

• Fruit Fly Larvae found 8/04
• Mexican Fruit Fly,
  Anastrepha ludens
• Oriental fruit fly complex,
  Bactrocera dorsalis
• Mediterranean Fruit Fly
• A guava fruit fly,
  Bactrocera correcta

LEAFMINERS

• California pea leafminer
• Citrus leafminer
• Pea leafminer

MEALYBUGS

• Pink hibiscus mealybug
• A bamboo mealybug, Palmicultor lumpurensis

MITES

• Red palm mite Raoiella indica Hirst
• Japanese zelkova eriophyid mite
• A Spider Mite, Eutetranychus sp.
  

NEMATODES

• Root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne mayaguensis

PLANT PATHOLOGY

• Gladiolus rust (Uromyces transversalis)
• Citrus Greening
• Sudden Oak Death
• Stripe Rust of Wheat
• Surveillance for Soybean Rust
• Chrysanthemum White Rust,
• Puccinia horiana
• Daylily rust
• Bacterial Fruit Blotch of Watermelon

SCALES

• A New Exotic Soft Scale Insect on Croton in South Florida (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)
• The Poliaspis Cycad Scale Poliaspis cycadis Comstock (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)
• Crypticerya genistae (Hemiptera: Margarodidae)
• Conchaspis cordiae Mamet - a false armored scale
• Duplachionaspis divergens (Green) - an armored scale
• Grenade scale, Cerococcus deklei
• Stellate scale, Vinsonia stellifera
• Cycad aulacaspis scale
• Lobate lac scale
• White mango scale

SNAILS & SLUGS

• Giant African Snail
• Snails & Slugs of Regulatory Significance to FL

SPIDERS

• Venomous Spiders in Florida
• Chilean Recluse,
  Loxosceles laeta

THRIPS/PSYILLIDS/WHITEFLIES

• Fig Whitefly Singhiella simplex
• Chilli Thrips
• Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (biotype ‘Q’)
• Holopothrips sp.
• Asian citrus psyllid / update
• Red gum lerp psyllid,
  Glycaspis brimblecombei
• Giant whitefly

OTHERS

• Blue Gum Chalcid - Leptocybe invasa, a Eucalyptus Pest
• An Ornamental Fig Pest , Horidiplosis ficifolii Harris (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Genus and Species New to Florida and North America
• Erythrina Gall Wasp, Quadrastichus erythrinae Kim
• Leptoglossus zonatus - A New Leaffooted Bug in Florida