Sucking and Chewing Pests of Ornamentals

Question #1: Aphids have _________________ mouthparts that they use to suck fluid from plants.

Question #2: ______________________ are small and covered with either wax or a shell/small armored plate.

Question #3: _________________________ are a particular kind of scale and their name comes from the waxy secretions that cover the insect’s body.

Question #4: ____________________ have piercing, sucking and rasping mouthparts and are 1/40 to 1/10 inch in size. They are slender bodied insects that have fringed wings.

Question #5: ________________________ damage plants by chewing on the foliage.

Question #6: The larvae of newly hatched ___________________________ form a web and feed on the leaves of pecan trees. Heavily infested trees can be completely stripped of their foliage.

Question #7: ___________________ feed on many different species of trees. A full-grown caterpillar larva is 1.5 inches long or longer and the larvae eat the foliage of infested plants and produce unsightly webs.

___________________________ construct webs on the terminal ends of branches and consume the foliage with these webs. As the larvae grow, they will expand these webs and encase more foliage.

The larvae and adults of _________________________ feed on the leaves of elm trees. Their feeding skeletonizes the leaves. The adults chew oval holes through the leaves and the larvae eat all except the upper surface of the leaf.

Question #10: ________________________ refers to more than one species of insects. The eggs of _______________________ are deposited in plant tissue and after hatching, begin feeding between the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf.