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Mint-Thrips Frankliniella spp. Pest description and crop damage Small yellowish insects < 1 mm long. Feeding on undersides of leaves injures cells. Damage appears as stippling, silvering, and/or yellowing of leaves. Generally, thrips are a localized pr ...

Mint-Wireworm Limonius spp. Pest description and crop damage Brown, jointed, wiry, yellow to brown larvae of click beetles that feed on roots and underground stems of mint plants. Adults are brown elongate beetles from 0.33 to 0.75 inch long. Wireworms ar ...

Mint-Ligurian Leafhopper Ligurian leafhopper (Eupteryx decemnotata) Pest description and crop damage Adults are tiny, less than 0.12 inches, yellowish-green with a characteristic pattern of spots on the head and the wings. The Ligurian leafhopper is an im ...

Small grain-Aphid Includes Bird-cherry oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi) Cereal grass aphid (Metopolophium festucae cerealium) Corn leaf aphid (Rhopalosiphum maidis) English grain aphid (Sitobion avenae) Greenbug (Schizaphis graminum) Rose-grass aphid (Metop ...

Small grain-Russian wheat aphid Diuraphis noxia Pest description and crop damage The Russian wheat aphid is relatively easy to identify. The aphid is light green, elongated, and spindle-shaped. Antennae are very short. It has a wart-like projection above ...

Small grain-Barley thrips Limothrips denticornis Pest description and crop damage Black or brownish, winged or wingless, small slender insects between 0.03 and 0.0625 inch long. Thrips feed on the cell contents of the plant foliage which would result in w ...

Small grain-Brown wheat mite Petrobia latens Pest description and crop damage Young mites are red-orange; later, they become dark brown with lighter colored legs. The front legs are usually held straight in front, elongated and almost twice as long as the ...

Small grain-Cereal leaf beetle Oulema melanopus Pest description and crop damage Adults are small beetles about 0.25 to 0.375 inch, with a metallic-blue head and wing covers, red pronotum, and yellow-orange legs. Larvae are yellow to yellow-brown with a d ...

Small grain-Chinch bug Blissus spp. Pest description and crop damage A small black insect (a true bug), approximately 0.18 inch long, with a conspicuous black triangle on the outer margin of their white forewings. The nymphs have a white band that transve ...

Small grain-Cutworm and armyworm Includes Army cutworm (Chorizagrotis auxiliaris) Black cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon) Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugipedra) Variegated cutworm (Peridroma saucia and Euxoa spp.) Wheat head armyworm (Faronta diffusa) Pest descrip ...