Insect Management Handbook

Order Lepidoptera: Family Noctuidae

Includes
True cricket (Gryllidae
Katydid (Tettigoniidae) including Mormon cricket (Anabrus simplex, a shield-backed katydid)

Order Lepidoptera

Includes elm bark beetle (Scolytus scolytus), shothole borer (Scolytus rugulosus), Ips spp., Dendroctonus spp.

Order Hemiptera; Family Aphididae

Greenhouse whitefly (Trialeuroides vaporarium)
Silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia argentifolia)
Sweet potato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)

Including

Black vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus)

Greenhouse thrips (Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis)

Pest description and crop damage The insects are very small with fringed wings. Monitoring is usually made by visual inspection for the thrips or their damage. Their damage is usually evident as the scraping of the epidermal layers of the plant leaf. Thrips are vectors of a serious disease. Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TMSV) and Impatiens Necrotic Wilt Virus (INSV) can have devastating consequences in susceptible crops.

Including

Twospotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae)

Numerous species