Garden Insects of North America

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ISBN: 9780691095615 | 0691095612
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/8/2004

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Using full-color photos and scientifically accurate text, Cranshaw creates a comprehensive, user-friendly guide on how to better understand, appreciate and tolerate 1,420 of the insects affecting yard and garden plants in North America.

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Photographic Credits	p. xv
Introduction to Garden Insects and Their Relatives	p. 1
Metamorphosis	p. 2
Hexapod Orders	p. 4
Identification of Immature Stages of Arthropods	p. 6
Excreted and Secreted Products Useful in Diagnosing Garden Arthropods and Slugs	p. 12
Body Parts Useful in Diagnosing Garden Arthropods	p. 14
Fruit and Foliage Injuries Produced by Arthropods and Slugs	p. 16
Plant Pathogens Transmitted by Arthropods	p. 24
Management Principles for Some Garden Pests	p. 26
Leaf Chewers and Leafminers	p. 26
Flower, Fruit, and Seed Feeders	p. 31
Sap Suckers	p. 35
Gall Makers	p. 41
Stem, Twig, Branch, and Trunk Damagers	p. 41
Root, Tuber, and Bulb Feeders	p. 43
Miscellaneous Garden Insects	p. 45
Leaf Chewers	p. 48
Slugs and Snails	p. 48
Grasshoppers	p. 52
Crickets and Katydids	p. 56
Walkingsticks	p. 60
Earwigs	p. 62
Ants	p. 64
Leafcutter Bees	p. 70
Conifer Sawflies	p. 72
Common Sawflies	p. 76
Slug Sawflies	p. 82
Other Sawflies	p. 84
Webworms	p. 86
Sod Webworms	p. 92
Diamondback Moth	p. 94
Leafrollers	p. 96
Spruce Budworms	p. 104
Skippers	p. 106
Webspinning Sawflies	p. 108
Skeletonizers	p. 110
Tent Caterpillars	p. 112
Gypsy Moth	p. 116
Fall Webworm	p. 118
Tussock Moths and Tiger Moths	p. 120
Woollybears	p. 126
Cankerworms, Spanworms, and Inchworms	p. 128
Cutworms and Armyworms	p. 134
Loopers	p. 144
Hornworms/Sphinx Moths	p. 146
Prominent Moths	p. 150
Giant Silkworms/Royal Moths	p. 154
Slug Caterpillars/Flannel Moths	p. 158
Bagworms	p. 160
Casebearers	p. 162
Whites and Sulfurs	p. 166
Swallowtails	p. 168
Brushfooted Butterflies	p. 172
Blister Beetles	p. 176
Leaf Beetles	p. 178
Flea Beetles	p. 198
Mexican Bean Beetle	p. 202
Leafminers	p. 204
Leafmining Flies	p. 204
Leafmining Sawflies	p. 210
Leafmining Moths	p. 212
Leafmining Beetles	p. 220
Flower, Fruit, and Seed Feeders	p. 222
Flower Thrips	p. 222
True Bugs That Feed on Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds	p. 224
Stink Bugs	p. 228
Other Seed-Feeding Bugs	p. 230
Fruit Flies	p. 234
Yellowjackets and Hornets	p. 242
Caterpillars That Damage Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds	p. 246
Fruit-Infesting Sawflies	p. 266
Fruit- and Flower-Infesting Beetles	p. 268
Sap Beetles and Other Fruit-Damaging Beetles	p. 272
Fruit, Flower, and Seed Weevils	p. 276
Sap Suckers	p. 284
Whiteflies	p. 284
Psyllids	p. 290
Aphids	p. 296
"Woolly" Aphids	p. 310
Adelgids	p. 314
Mealybugs	p. 316
Eriococcids, or Feltlike Scales	p. 324
Cochineal Scales	p. 326
Soft Scales	p. 328
Margarodid Scales	p. 340
Kermes, Pit, and Falsepit Scales	p. 342
Armored Scales	p. 344
Leafhoppers	p. 356
Treehoppers	p. 366
Spittlebugs	p. 368
Squash Bug	p. 372
Plant Bugs	p. 374
Chinch Bugs	p. 378
Stink Bugs	p. 382
Lace Bugs	p. 384
Thrips	p. 386
Spider Mites	p. 392
Tarsonemid Mites	p. 402
False Spider Mites	p. 404
Rust Mites	p. 404
Gall Makers	p. 408
Aphid Galls	p. 408
Adelgid Galls	p. 410
Phylloxeran Galls	p. 412
Psyllid Galls	p. 414
Gall-Making Flies	p. 418
Gall Wasps	p. 424
Eriophyid Mite Galls	p. 430
Stem and Twig Damagers	p. 434
Cicadas	p. 434
Pine Tip Moths	p. 438
Other Conifer-Tip-Boring Moths	p. 440
Stem-Boring Moths of Deciduous Trees and Shrubs	p. 442
Stem-Boring Sawflies	p. 446
Pith-Nesting Bees and Wasps	p. 448
Weevil Borers of Terminal Growth	p. 450
Twig-Feeding Beetles	p. 452
Twig-Boring Flies	p. 458
Trunk and Branch Borers	p. 460
Horntails	p. 460
Clearwing Borers	p. 462
Carpenterworms	p. 468
Pyralid Borers	p. 470
Noctuid Borers	p. 472
Metallic Wood Borers/Flatheaded Borers	p. 474
Longhorned Beetles/Roundheaded Borers	p. 480
Weevil Borers	p. 488
Bark Beetles	p. 490
Root, Tuber, and Bulb Feeders	p. 500
Pillbug and Sowbugs	p. 500
Millipedes	p. 502
Symphylans	p. 502
Springtails	p. 504
Root Aphids and Other Sucking Insects	p. 506
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