Garden Insects of North America
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-09561-5 (ISBN)
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Garden Insects of North America is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the common insects and mites affecting yard and garden plants in North America. In a manner no previous book has come close to achieving, through full-color photos and concise, clear, scientifically accurate text, it describes the vast majority of species associated with shade trees and shrubs, turfgrass, flowers and ornamental plants, vegetables, and fruits--1,420 of them, including crickets, katydids, fruit flies, mealybugs, moths, maggots, borers, aphids, ants, bees, and many, many more. For particularly abundant bugs adept at damaging garden plants, management tips are also included. Covering all of the continental United States and Canada, this is the definitive one-volume resource for amateur gardeners, insect lovers, and professional entomologists alike. To ease identification, the book is organized by plant area affected (e.g., foliage, flowers, stems) and within that, by taxa. Close to a third of the species are primarily leaf chewers, with about the same number of sap suckers. Multiple photos of various life stages and typical plant symptoms are included for key species.
The text, on the facing page, provides basic information on host plants, characteristic damage caused to plants, distribution, life history, habits, and, where necessary, how to keep "pests" in check--in short, the essentials to better understanding, appreciating, and tolerating these creatures. Whether managing, studying, or simply observing insects, identification is the first step--and this book is the key. With it in hand, the marvelous microcosm right outside the house finally comes fully into view. * Describes more than 1,400 species--twice as many as in any other field guide * Full-color photos for most species--more than five times the number in most comparable guides * Up-to-date pest management tips * Organized by plant area affected and by taxa for easy identification * Covers the continental United States and Canada * Provides species level treatment of all insects and mites important to gardens * Illustrates all life stages of key garden insects and commonly associated plant injuries * Concise, clear, scientifically accurate text * Comprehensive and user-friendly
Whitney Cranshaw is Professor and Extension Specialist at Colorado State University, responsible for developing pest management programs for insect pests of horticultural crops. He is the author of two popular books, "Pests of the West" and "Bagging Big Bugs".
PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS xv CHAPTER ONE: Introduction to Garden Insects and Their Relatives 1 Metamorphosis 2 Hexapod Orders 4 Identification of Immature Stages of Arthropods 6 Excreted and Secreted Products Useful in Diagnosing Garden Arthropods and Slugs 12 Body Parts Useful in Diagnosing Garden Arthropods 14 Fruit and Foliage Injuries Produced by Arthropods and Slugs 16 Plant Pathogens Transmitted by Arthropods 24 CHAPTER TWO: Management Principles for Some Garden Pests 26 Leaf Chewers and Leafminers 26 Flower, Fruit, and Seed Feeders 31 Sap Suckers 35 Gall Makers 41 Stem, Twig, Branch, and Trunk Damagers 41 Root, Tuber, and Bulb Feeders 43 Miscellaneous Garden Insects 45 CHAPTER THREE: Leaf Chewers 48 Slugs and Snails 48 Grasshoppers 52 Crickets and Katydids 56 Walkingsticks 60 Earwigs 62 Ants 64 Leafcutter Bees 70 Conifer Sawflies 72 Common Sawflies 76 Slug Sawflies 82 Other Sawflies 84 Webworms 86 Sod Webworms 92 Diamondback Moth 94 Leafrollers 96 Spruce Budworms 104 Skippers 106 Webspinning Sawflies 108 Skeletonizers 110 Tent Caterpillars 112 Gypsy Moth 116 Fall Webworm 118 Tussock Moths and Tiger Moths 120 Woollybears 126 Cankerworms, Spanworms, and Inchworms 128 Cutworms and Armyworms 134 Loopers 144 Hornworms/Sphinx Moths 146 Prominent Moths 150 Giant Silkworms/Royal Moths 154 Slug Caterpillars/Flannel Moths 158 Bagworms 160 Casebearers 162 Whites and Sulfurs 166 Swallowtails 168 Brushfooted Butterflies 172 Blister Beetles 176 Leaf Beetles 178 Flea Beetles 198 Mexican Bean Beetle 202 CHAPTER FOUR: Leafminers 204 Leafmining Flies 204 Leafmining Sawflies 210 Leafmining Moths 212 Leafmining Beetles 220 CHAPTER FIVE: Flower, Fruit, and Seed Feeders 222 Flower Thrips 222 True Bugs That Feed on Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds 224 Stink Bugs 228 Other Seed-Feeding Bugs 230 Fruit Flies 234 Yellowjackets and Hornets 242 Caterpillars That Damage Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds 246 Fruit-Infesting Sawflies 266 Fruit- and Flower-Infesting Beetles 268 Sap Beetles and Other Fruit-Damaging Beetles 272 Fruit, Flower, and Seed Weevils 276 CHAPTER SIX: Sap Suckers 284 Whiteflies 284 Psyllids 290 Aphids 296 "Woolly" Aphids 310 Adelgids 314 Mealybugs 316 Eriococcids, or Feltlike Scales 324 Cochineal Scales 326 Soft Scales 328 Margarodid Scales 340 Kermes, Pit, and Falsepit Scales 342 Armored Scales 344 Leafhoppers 356 Treehoppers 366 Spittlebugs 368 Squash Bug 372 Plant Bugs 374 Chinch Bugs 378 Stink Bugs 382 Lace Bugs 384 Thrips 386 Spider Mites 392 Tarsonemid Mites 402 False Spider Mites 404 Rust Mites 404 CHAPTER SEVEN: Gall Makers 408 Aphid Galls 408 Adelgid Galls 410 Phylloxeran Galls 412 Psyllid Galls 414 Gall-Making Flies 418 Gall Wasps 424 Eriophyid Mite Galls 430 CHAPTER EIGHT: Stem and Twig Damagers 434 Cicadas 434 Pine Tip Moths 438 Other Conifer-Tip-Boring Moths 440 Stem-Boring Moths of Deciduous Trees and Shrubs 442 Stem-Boring Sawflies 446 Pith-Nesting Bees and Wasps 448 Weevil Borers of Terminal Growth 450 Twig-Feeding Beetles 452 Twig-Boring Flies 458 CHAPTER NINE: Trunk and Branch Borers 460 Horntails 460 Clearwing Borers 462 Carpenterworms 468 Pyralid Borers 470 Noctuid Borers 472 Metallic Wood Borers/Flatheaded Borers 474 Longhorned Beetles/Roundheaded Borers 480 Weevil Borers 488 Bark Beetles 490 CHAPTER TEN: Root, Tuber, and Bulb Feeders 500 Pillbug and Sowbugs 500 Millipedes 502 Symphylans 502 Springtails 504 Root Aphids and Other Sucking Insects 506 Bulb Mites 508 Termites 510 Mole Crickets 512 Root Maggots and Bulb Flies 514 White Grubs 524 Root Weevils 532 Billbugs 540 Wireworms 542 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Beneficial Garden Arthropods 544 Predators 544 Parasites 564 Pathogens 568 Pollinators 572 APPENDIX OF HOST PLANT GENERA AND ASSOCIATED INSECTS AND MITES 577 GLOSSARY 629 SELECTED REFERENCES 637 INDEX 639
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.3.2004 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 265 color plates. 1,400+ color photos. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 1899 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-09561-2 / 0691095612 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-09561-5 / 9780691095615 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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