Featured Creatures: The Good, The Bad and The Pretty

Featured Creatures provides in-depth profiles of insects, nematodes, arachnids and other organisms that are of interest to Florida's residents. An associated purpose is to support professionals in agriculture, horticulture, and urban pest control. The site is a cooperative venture of the University of Florida's Department of Entomology and Nematology and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Division of Plant Industry. The files on this site are official publications of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and are protected by copyright. Subscribe to Pest Alert to receive notices of new Featured Creatures as they are added.

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"Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord." -- Thomas Eisner

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During the period 1 Ocotber 2007 - 30 September 2008,
the Featured Creatures Web site recorded
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