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Insects

Insecticides

Ants

Head, Thorax, and AbdomenTermites

Ants• Live in Colonies• Queen……eggs• Workers…searching for

food and water

• Winged Swarmers

Aphids• Hide on the under

side of leaves.• Suck the plants

juices.• Many stages at one

time.• When dead, they

often remain on plant.

Soft bodied, Translucent, Green, Brown, or Black.

Aphids• Spray the

under side of the leaves.

• Repeat 7 to 10 days.

• Drench susceptible trees yearly.

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Bagworm

Eggs hatch in June. The baby bagworm makes a small bag, and feeds. Bags get larger to fit the worm. Males emerge from bag in Fall, and mate with Female (she stays in the bag), She lays eggs in bag, an falls from bag dead.

Bagworm • Spray late June or early July for BEST control.

• Be sure of through coverage!

• Sprayings later are less effective.

Female Male

BorersLocust Borer

Poplar Borer

Redheaded Ash Borer

Cottonwood Borer

Emerald Ash Borer

Bronze Birch Borer

Peachtree Borer

Lilac/Ash Borer

Borers

Box Elder Bug

Along foundations and on South & West sides.

Budworm

Often attacksGeraniums

and Petunias.

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Carpenter Ant1. Large Black Ants. (Large Mandibles)

2. Red head and thorax with black abdomen. (Mandibles again)

• When colony gets large, (5 to 6

years) Winged Ants will disperse to start a new colony.

• Carpenter Ants do noteat wood, they justburrow in it.

• Carpenter Ants foragefor food and water.

Carpenter Ant

Carpenter Bee• Adults borer holes in bare wood

and lay eggs in chambers.• Treat holes with insecticide to

control Adults.• May take multiple applications.

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Carpet Beetle• Adults like Fur, Wool and Carpet.• Females lay eggs, two weeks later they hatch.• Larvae burrow down into the food source.• Spray above and below, if possible remove.

CicadaNOT Locust!

Cicada Killer

• Cicada Killers rarely sting.• Treat the holes in the late

evening or early morning.

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Cockroach

Clover Mites• Tiny little guys that like to come in

through screens and windows.

• They look like dust, but they move.

• When you touch them they crush and leave a red mark.

Cricket• They chirp, chirp, chirp.• Males chirp / Females lay eggs.• They will eat plants, dead

insects, seeds, leather, paper and old clothes, (They are particularly fond of wool and silk.)

Cucumber Beetle• Chew holes in the

leaves.• Chew on the stems.• Feed on the roots as

larvae.• Spread Bacterial Wilt.

Cucumber BeetleBacterial Wilt

cutworm • Larvae emerge at night and “cut” the stem of garden plants.

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Earwig• Nocturnal• Omnivorous, can cause major

damage to small plants.• Spotty problem in isolated areas.• May be a problem indoors or outdoors

Elm Leaf Beetle• Nuisance pest inside

the house, can not live inside.

• Feeds on leaves of Elm Trees.

Flea• Treat everywhere the pet

goes. (Preferably all at once)

• Yard, Bedding, Inside the house, and don’t forget the Pet!

Fly

• Spray around windows, and doors, inside and outside.

• Spray screens.• Use foggers for

bad infestations. • Manual fly killers.

Fungus Gnat• Nuisance Pest.• Adults don’t feed on plants.• Larvae may feed on roots

but a minor pest.• Treat the soil.

GallsMaple Bladder Gall

Oak Apple GallHackberry Nipple Gall

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Grasshopper

3 - 530 - 50Black Turfgrass Ataenius

18 - 10Japanese Beetle

13 - 5May/June Beetle

18 - 10Masked Chafer

Number/4-Inch CoreNumber/Square FootGrub Species

TREATMENT THRESHOLD

GRUBS

a.k.a. June bug

MASKED CHAFERGRUBS

MAY/JUNE BEETLE

JAPANESE

GRUBS

BEETLE

GRUBS

• Found most often on Golf Courses.• Will have to two generations per year, with the

second generation overwintering as Adults.

BLACK TURFGRASS ATAENIUS

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GRUBS• Overwintering Adults emerge mid-spring and lay eggs.• Larvae emerge from eggs and burrow into the

stem, leaving “frass” (sawdust like material) in the upper thatch layer.

• This is where the damage occurs. Grass pulls out easily

BILLBUG Grub ControlsGrub Free Zone II .2% Imidacloprid

• Apply late spring to early summer. Before the grass is stressed by Heat.

Kill-A-Grub 1.33% Halofenozide• Apply mid-summer through late

summer, kills grubs up to the 2nd molt.

Dylox 6.2% Trichlorfon• Apply when you have grubs. Kills

every grub it is going to kill, in 24 hours.

Leafcutter Bee• Mostly just a nuisance, with an interesting habit

of cutting leaves to use in making a nest.• Control in normally not necessary, these are

solitary insects.• Look at the end of larger rose canes for burrowing.

LeafhopperAdults and Nymphspierce leaves andleave small white dotson the leaf surface.

LeafminersInfects many vegetables and ornamentals.

Mealybug Common insect ofHouseplants,Bedding plants,and Tropical's.

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Millers (Cutworm)

Spring nuisance!No control necessary!Very mobile, newones every day. (night)

Mosquito

Multicolored Asian Lady BeetleDo Not crush or swat, they excretea foul smelling and staining liquid.

Pantry Pests

Meal Moth

Flour Beetles

1:10 bleach sol.

Pine Tip Moth• Spray 2 or 3 times

when moths are present. (May, June, July, Aug?)

• Drench in the spring when candles elongate.

Pine SawflyThey strip needles from susceptibletrees in late April to mid-June.

Very easy to control if caught early.

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Potato BeetleThey feed on potato, tomato, eggplant, pepper.

Pillbugs / Sowbugs (roly-poly)

• Decomposers that are just a nuisance.

• They enjoy moist, dark locations.

Centipede/Millipede• Decomposers

that are just a nuisance.

Scale

Sod Webworm

To check for Sod Webworms:1. Mix up 2 gallons of water with two TBS of

liquid dishwashing detergent.2. Next sprinkle this mix over a 1sq. yard of

the affected turf.3. Within a couple of minutes, the larvae will

come to the surface. 4. If you get 10 to 15 larvae in a one square

yard of turf, treatment is warranted.

Garden Spiders

Tetragnathid Spider

Yellow Garden SpiderHELPFULNo Control Necessary!

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Poisonous Spiders

Brown Recluse

Black Widow

SpidermitesDo not spray Carbaryl, thisincreases the mite population. Do not spray Imidacloprid, it isnot effective on spidermites.

Spittle BugApply the granules firstthen mix sticker and liquid and then spray.

Stink BugsCan cause damage tosome crops, and canbecome a nuisance in large quantities.

Squash Bug Tomato Hornworm

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Tick TermitesDo not spray firewoodand do not store it nextto the house.

Tent CaterpillarThrips

Wasp Whitefly

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Fall Webworm

(Webs at the tip)

Thank You!