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tiny-white snow insect pests that resemble moths, although they might resemble moths, they are actually more related to scale insects. In fact, they are often confused with soft scale insects.

Whiteflies can suck juices from plants, causing leaves to yellow, shrivel, and drop prematurely or they can transmit several viruses from diseased to healthy plants through their mouthparts.

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populations build up on alfalfa, weeds, ice plant, and other vegetation and move from these hosts when they are cut, stop flowering, or dry up.

Western Flower Thrips cause stigmas and anthers to turn brown and wither prematurely, but not before fertilization has occurred making reproduction difficult.

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1/8 to ½ inch, color, shape, texture and other features vary with the species.

Scale insects weaken a plant and cause it to grow slowly. Infested plants appear water stressed, leaves turn yellow and may drop prematurely, and plant parts that remain heavily infested may die. The dead brownish leaves may remain on scale-killed branches, giving plants a scorched appearance

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small, soft-bodied insects which have sucking mouth parts.

Mealybugs produce honeydew, a sticky substance that increases mold growth on plants and attracts feeding ants.

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the larva of an insect that lives in and eats the leaf tissue of plants.

Adults lay their eggs on the leaf’s surface and the larvae burrow into the leaf. Leaf miner larvae usually spend their entire larval stage inside the host plant’s leaf.

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fragile dark gray to black-colored flies with long legs and antennae.

Fungus Gnats infest soil and container media, where larvae feed on organic matter and roots, feeder roots and root hairs.

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the larva of a butterfly or moth, having a segmented worm-like body with three pairs of true legs and several pairs of leg-like appendages.

Caterpillars eat leaves and plants leaving them damaged.

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a minute bug that feeds by sucking sap from plants. It reproduces rapidly, often producing live young without mating, and may live in large colonies that cause extensive damage to crops.

Aphids inject a toxin into plants, which causes leaves to curl and further distorts growth.