Tag: UF-IFAS Pest Alert

New on Featured Creatures! The wedge-shaped beetles

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
January 8, 2015

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: Ripiphoridae are a family of unusual parasitic beetles that are thought to be related to tumbling flower beetles (Coleoptera: ... READ MORE

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

New on Featured Creatures! Aster leafminer moth.

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
March 22, 2014

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: Leucospilapteryx venustella (Clemens) (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) is a small, mostly light brown moth that during its ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Horticulture, Pests & Disease
Tags: Featured Creatures, Pest Alert, UF-IFAS Pest Alert, UF/IFAS Pest Alert

New on Featured Creatures! Potato tuberworm.

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
March 21, 2014

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: The potato tuberworm Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller), also known as potato tuber moth or tobacco splitworm, is an oligophagous ... READ MORE

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

New on Featured Creatures! Tussock moths.

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
March 19, 2014

We are pleased to announce a new article on Featured Creatures! Take a sneak peek with this excerpt from the article: Tussock moths in the genus Orgyia are small moths that are best-known because of their attractive larvae. ABOVE: ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Forests, HOME LANDSCAPES, Horticulture, Lawn, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Recreation
Tags: Featured Creatures, FL Natives, Moths, Pest Alert, UF-IFAS Pest Alert, UF/IFAS Pest Alert

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

Rose Rosette Virus (RRV)- Confirmed in Florida!

by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
January 16, 2014

Rose rosette (witches’ broom) symptoms were first observed in 1940 in Canada on wild roses. Subsequently symptomatic plants were discovered in California in 1941 and many other states in the U.S. In 2011, the disease was confirmed to be caused ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, , HOME LANDSCAPES, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Mites, Pest Alert, RRV, UF-IFAS Pest Alert, Virus

Avid 0.15 EC Nematicide Label for Florida Approved!

by Amanda Hodges
October 18, 2013

The Avid 0.15 EC special local needs label for nematode control on golf course greens in Florida has been approved. When used as described in the attached label, Avid has been providing excellent results in my trials over the past couple of ... READ MORE

Category: Turf
Tags: Crow, Nematicide, Turf, UF-IFAS Pest Alert

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