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Japanese Beetles
Japanese Beetles Description: The Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica Newman, is a widespread and destructive pest of turf, landscape, and ornamental plants in the United States. It is also a pest of several fruit, garden, and field crops, and has a total host range of more than 300 plant species. Adult Japanese beetles feed on foliage, flowers, and fruits. Leaves are typically skeletonized or left with only tough network of veins.
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Chinch Bugs
Chinch Bugs Description: Chinch bugs are a complex of three different species within the Lygaeidae family. They have piercing-sucking mouthparts and they feed on the sap of grass plants. They reside in the thatch area of the turfgrass stand and prefer to feed on the lower leaf sheath and crown area of the plant. The chinch bug can be a major insect pest on home lawns throughout the country. The hairy chinch bug (Blissus hirtus) ...
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Grub Worms
Grub Worms Description: White grubs are the larval stage of many different beetles White grubs may be the most damaging turf insect pests in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Japanese beetle grubs alone cause an estimated $234 million in damage each year $78 million for control costs and an additional $156 million for replacement of damaged turf.
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Aphids
Aphids Description: Aphids are small, soft-bodied insects with long, slender mouthparts with which they pierce stems, leaves, and other tender plant parts to suck out plant fluids. Almost every plant has one or more aphid species which occasionally feed on it. Many aphid species are difficult to distinguish from one another; however, identification to species is not necessary to control aphids in most situations
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Sod Webworms
Sod Webworms Description: The adults are buff-colored moths which are 12 to 19 mm (1/2 to 3/4 inch) long. They sometimes have a small, dark line on the top of each wing cover. Two small finger-like projections are visible at the front of the head and look like a snout (hence, the name "snout moth"). When the moth is at rest, the wings wrap around the body, giving it a tubular shape. Adults will fly ...