Insect Management Handbook

Ctenicera spp. and Limonius spp.

Pest description and crop damage

See:

Common Pests of Vegetable Crops

Management-biological, cultural, tactical

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Scutigerella immaculata

Pest description, crop damage and life history

See:

Common Pests of Vegetable Crops

Biology and control of the garden symphylan

Management-biological control

Crioceris duodecimpunctata

Crioceris asparagi

Includes

Beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua)
Bertha armyworm (Mamestra configurata)
Yellowstriped armyworm (Spodoptera praefica)
Black cutworm (Agotis ipsilon)
Variegated cutworm (Peridroma saucia)

Pest description and crop damage

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Includes asparagus aphid (Brachycorynella asparagi)

Includes

Arion spp.
Black greenhouse slug (Milax gagates)
Gray field slug (Derocerus reticulatum)
Large spotted garden slug (Limax maximus)
Marsh slug (Derocerus laeve)
Reticulated slug (Prophysaon andersoni)

Pest description, crop damage and life history

Vanessa cardui

Pest description and crop damage Painted ladies are orange-brown butterflies with a wingspan of up to 2.87 inches. Wings have a black apex patch and white bar on the leading edge. Caterpillars are spiny, dull brown to black, with a pale yellow stripe on each side. They feed mostly on thistle. It is only an occasional pest of artichokes.

Includes

Black cutworm (Agotis ipsilon)
Variegated cutworm (Peridroma saucia)

Platyptilia carduidactylus

Pest description and crop damage Adults of the artichoke plume moth vary in color from buff to brownish buff, with a wingspan of 0.75 to 1.25 inches. The wings are divided into lobes, giving the appearance of several pairs of wings; the hind wings are fringed. Eggs are light greenish-yellow at first, turning darker (orange-yellow) with age, shiny, and very small.