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Manage Insects on Your Farm

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Table of Contents

How Ecologically Based Pest Management Works

Principles of Ecologically Based Pest Management

Identification Key to Major Beneficials and Pests

Predators
Parasitoids
Pests

Managing Soils to Minimize Crop Pests

Beneficial Agents on the Farm

Putting it all Together

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Manage Insects On Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies

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Key to Major Beneficials and Pests

Pests
Hymenoptera: Aphidae

Green peach aphid

(Myzus persicae)
Photo by Scott Bauer, USDA ARS
Tetranychidae: Acari
Two spotted spider mite
(Tetranychus urticae)
Photo by Jack Kelly Clark, UC
Hemiptera: Pentatomidae
Green stink bug nymph
(Acrosternum hilare)
Photo by Russ Ottens
Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
Colorado potato beetle
(Peptinotarsa decemlineata)
Photo by Scott Bauer, USDA ARS
Hemiptera: Miridae
Alfalfa plant bug
(Adelphocoris lineolatus)
Photo by Scott Bauer, USDA ARS
Hemiptera: Miridae
Tarnished plant bug
(Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois))
Photo by Scott Bauer, USDA ARS
Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
Striped cucumber beetle
(Acalymma vittatu)
Photo by Scott Bauer, USDA ARS
Lepidoptera: Noctuidae
Fall armyworm parasitized
by chalcid wasp
Photo by Debbie Roos

 


 

 

 

 
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