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Common name: Cabbage looper Common specie: Trichoplusia ni Crops affected: egg plant

Semi Looper Characteristics Damage: All stages of the crop can be attacked by semilooper. Larvae feed on the underside of the leaves creating small holes which may lead to complete defoliation of the crops. It can cause stunting of cabbage and cauliflower heads.

Family: Coccinellidae Scientific name: Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata Phylum: Arthropoda Rank: Species

Ladybird Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata is a species of beetle in the family Coccinellidae. It is commonly known as the 28-spotted potato ladybird or the Hadda beetle. It feeds on the foliage of potatoes and other solanaceous crops.

Family: Coccinellidae Scientific name: Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata Phylum: Arthropoda Rank: Species Order: Beetle

Leafhopper A leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae. These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees.

Scientific name: Cicadellidae Family: Cicadellidae; Latreille, 1802 Order: True bugs Rank: Family Higher classification: Membracoidea

Whitefly Common on indoor plants, tomatoes and in greenhouses, the whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum) is a sap-sucking insect that is often found in thick crowds on the undersides of leaves. When infested plants are disturbed, great clouds of the winged adults fly into the air. Both nymphs and adults damage plants by sucking ...

Scientific name: Aleyrodidae Order: True bugs Phylum: Arthropoda Higher classification: Naboidea Rank: Family classification: Sternorrhyncha Plant destructed: egg plant

Damsel bugs The insect family Nabidae contains the damsel bugs. There are over 500 species in 20 genera. They are soft-bodied, elongate, winged terrestrial predators. Many damsel bugs catch and hold prey with their forelegs, similar to mantids.

Scientific name: Alticini Order: Beetle Higher classification: Galerucinae Tribe: Alticini; Spinola, 1844 Rank: Subfamily Family: Chrysomelidae

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Flea beetle The flea beetle is a small, jumping beetle of the leaf beetle family, that makes up the tribe Alticini which is a part of the subfamily Galerucinae. Historically the flea beetles were classified as their own subfamily.

Scientific name: Spodoptera frugiperda Rank: Species Higher classification: Spodoptera Did you know: The native range of the Fall armyworm – Spodoptera frugiperda – is in South and North America. theconversation.com Harmful

Fall armyworm The fall armyworm is a species in the order of Lepidoptera and is the larval life stage of a fall armyworm moth. The term "armyworm" can refer to several species, often describing the large-scale invasive behavior of the species' larval stage.

Scientific name: Aphidoidea Order: True bugs Rank: Superfamily Class: Insecta Higher classification: Sternorrhyncha

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Aphid Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea. Common names include greenfly and blackfly, although individuals within a species can vary widely in colour. The group includes the fluffy white woolly aphids.

Scientific name: Coccinellidae Rank: Family Order: Beetle Phylum: Arthropoda Higher classification: Cucujoidea

Ladybird Coccinellidae is a widespread family of small beetles ranging from 0.8 to 18 mm. They are commonly yellow, orange, or red with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, heads and antennae. However such colour patterns vary greatly. Wikipedia

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Neuroptera Family: Chrysopidae

Green lacewings Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order Neuroptera. Lacewings are widely used to control many different pests. Many species of adult lacewings do not kill pest insects, they actually subsist ...

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