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New on Featured Creatures! Corn wireworm. By Gill, Chahil, Goyal, Gillett-Kaufman, and Cherry.

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
January 31, 2014

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: Insects in the family Elateridae are commonly known as “click beetles”. Their name comes from the clicking sound they ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, HOME LANDSCAPES, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease
Tags: Featured Creatures, Pest Alert, UF-IFAS Pest Alert

New on Featured Creatures! Sri Lankan weevil. By Neal.

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
November 15, 2013

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus Marshall, the Sri Lankan weevil, is a plant pest with a wide range of hosts. This weevil ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, , Crops, HOME LANDSCAPES, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Featured Creatures, Invasive Species, Pest Alert

New on Featured Creatures! Cabbage aphid. By Gill, Garg and Gillett-Kaufman.

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
October 29, 2013

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: The cabbage aphid belongs to the genus Brevicoryne from Latin “brevi” and “coryne” and which loosely translates ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, HOME LANDSCAPES, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease
Tags: Featured Creatures, Pest Alert

New on Featured Creatures! Ladybird beetles – recent immigrants to Florida. By Thomas and Blanchard.

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
October 17, 2013

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: Since the publication of the Florida beetles checklist (Peck and Thomas 1998), a number of ladybird beetles have become ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, HOME LANDSCAPES, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Featured Creatures, Pest Alert

New on Featured Creatures! Citrus snow scale, by Buckley and Hodges.

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
October 7, 2013

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Citrus snow scale available at: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/scales/citrus_snow_scale.htm Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: The citrus snow ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Featured Creatures, Pest Alert, Scale Insects

New on Featured Creatures! Spotted cucumber beetle, by Gill, Goyal and Gillett-Kaufman.

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
October 2, 2013

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: Spotted cucumber beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber, is a major agricultural pest of North America. Another ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, HOME LANDSCAPES, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Beetles, Featured Creatures, Pest Alert

New Featured Creatures! Eriophyid mite vector of Rose Rosette Disease (RRD) Phyllocoptes fructiphilus by M.A. Hoy, UF.

by Amanda Hodges
June 10, 2013

We are pleased to announce a new mite Featured Creatures! Phyllocoptes fructiphilus Keifer is a tiny eriophyid mite associated with most rose species and cultivars, especially in the eastern half of the USA. Most significantly, this mite ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, HOME LANDSCAPES, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease
Tags: Featured Creatures, Mites, Pest Alert