ORNAMENTALS

Host Growth Stage of Name of Insect Order Unique Type of Mode of Damage Major/Minor Picture
Host Insect Characteristics Mouthpart
Rose -leaf development Aphids Homoptera -Small Piercing- They harm plants by Major
-formation of basal -Soft-bodied sucking sucking plant sap and
side shoots inssect spreading plant diseases.
-shoot growth of
branches
Tulips -bulb/shoot Bulb Flies Diptera -Common Cutting- The center of the bulb is Major
-leaves grow medium-sized sponging hallowed out and the
-flower buds hoverfly flower bud is destroyed.
-bud opens -Have hairy
-flower blooms bodies that vary
-bulb becomes in color
dominant
Orchids -seed germination Mealybugs Homoptera -Tiny Sap- Suck sap from plant Major
-root growth -soft bodied sucking phloem, reducing plant
-leaf production insects vigor and they excrete
-flower spike sticky honeydew and
growth wax, which reduces
-blooming plant quality.
-dormancy
Anthuriums Monopodial phase Spider Mites Acari -simple Needle- They feed on plant sap Major
-juvenile period to -oval shaped like and can cause stippling,
the onset of body piercing- spotting, and plant
flowering -no wings or sucking death.
Symphodial phase antennae
-begins at flowering,
where one cut-
flower is produced
from each leaf
axil,independently,
beneath each new
 leaf, a new root
forms.
Gladiolus -corm development Thrips Thysanoptera -tiny insects Rasping- They feed by piercing Major
-foliage production -with or without sucking the plant surface with
-leaf and stem wings mouthparts their mouthparts and
development sucking the contents of
-flowering plant cells.
-deadheading
-rejuvenation

ROOTCROPS
Host Growth Stage of Name of Insect Order Unique Type of Mode of Damage Major/Minor Pictures
host Insect Characteristics Mouthpart
Carrot -Vegetative stage Rust Fly Diptera -Adults are small Piercing, They munch higgled Major
-Black Sucking on the surface of the
-Slender flies roots before boring
with reddish into the heart of the
yellow head and carrot.
yellowish legs

Onion -Early bulbing Onion Thysanoptera -Thin and pale Rasping, They feed under the Major
stage of onion Thrips yellow to brown Sucking leaf folds and in the
development color. protected inner leaves
-Wings only have near the bulb.
a single, central
vein and are
fringed with long
hairs.

Garlic -Vegetative Stage Leaf Miners Diptera -Tiny grayish Piercing, Females puncture the Major
Black in color. Sucking leaf in a linear
-2mm long fashion to feed on the
-Feed under the plant sap and lays
surface of leaves. eggs within the plant
tissue.
Radish -Seedling stage Mustard Hymenoptera -Small orange Chewing Adult female lay eggs Major
Sawfly yellow insects, inside the leaf tissues.
with black The grubs after
marking on the hatching from eggs
body and have feed on the leaves by
smoky wings making small holes.
with black veins.

Taro -Vegetative Stage Flea Beetle Coleoptera -Large black legs Chewing They feed on the Major
for jumping undersides of leaves,
-Some species leaving small pits or
have stripes irregularly shaped
-Black, bronze, holes on the leaves.
bluish or brown
to metallic gray in
color

SOLANACEOUS
Host Growth stage of Name of Insect order Unique Type of Mode of Damage Major/Minor Pictures
Host Insect Characteristics Mouthpart
Eggplant -Vegetative stage Aphids Homoptera -Soft pear- Piercing, Production of sticky Major
shaped bodies Sucking honeydew and
with long legs subsequent growth of
and antennae black molds on the
honey dew.

Tomato -starts at a Whiteflies Hemiptera -Adults Piercing, They feed on leaves. Major
Vegetative Stage resembles small Sucking Which causes the leaf
until the plant is moths and the to become yellowish
still standing body and wings and curl. They
are converted in produce honeydew
powdery white which as well causes
wax. leaves to appear
shiny and blackened.

Chilli Aphids Homoptera -Small soft Piercing, Aphid infestation is Major

bodied insects on Sucking heavy it may cause
underside of leaves to yellow
leaves and/or and/or distorted,
stems of plant; necrotic spots on
usually green or leaves and/or stunted
yellow in color, shoots; aphids secrete
but may be pink, a sticky, sugary
brown, red or substance called
black honeydew which
encourages the
growth of sooty mold
on the plants.
 Beet Lepidoptera -young larvae are Chewing Heavy feeding by Major
armyworm pale green to young larvae leads to
yellow in color skeletonized leaves;
while older shallow, dry wounds
larvae are on fruit
generally darker
green with a dark
and light line
running along
the side of their
body and a pink
or yellow
underside.
Flea Beetle Coleoptera -Small (1.5–3.0 Piercing They feed on leaves Major
mm) dark creating small holes
colored beetle or pits in leaves that
which jumps give the foliage a
when disturbed; characteristic
the beetles are “shothole”
often shiny and appearance
metallic in
appearance.
Potato Colorado Coleoptera -1/2" long by Chewing, The hump-backed Major
Potato 3/8" wide, oval sucking, larvae feed on leaves
Beetles with a rounded piercing and can usually be
back, and each spotted near the top
forewing is of plants. Once the
yellow with five larvae are fully
black stripes. developed into adults
-The larva is after spending a week
humpbacked, in the soil, they
rusty-red with emerge and begin to
two rows of feed on potato plants.
 black dots along Not only can their
each side of its feeding damage
body, reaching plants, Colorado
about 5/8 inch potato beetles also
long. transmit spindle tuber
virus and bacterial
ring rot.
Tobacco Stink Bugs Hemiptera -shield shaped, Sucking Both nymphs (no Major
green or brown, wings) and adults of
and about 5/8 these species feed on
inch long (15 tobacco by inserting
mm) their beak into the
midrib of the leaves
sucking juices out at
this point.
Apparently, a toxic
substance is inserted
at this point that may
cause the leaf to
droop or deteriorate
from the feeding
point to the tip.
Tobacco is not a
preferred host for
stinkbugs and
damage usually
occurs when they
migrate to tobacco
from other plants
such as small grains
that are reaching
maturity.
 Tobacco Flea Coleoptera - brownish- Chewing, -Adult flea beetles Major
Beetle black, hard- sucking chew small round
shelled beetle holes into and
about 1/16 inch through the tobacco
(1.5 mm) in leaf. They attack the
length young plants in the
seed-beds almost as
soon as they come
up.
-Flea beetles lay their
eggs on the soil and
the delicate, white
larvae feed on the
roots of the plants.

FRUIT and PLANTATION

Host Growth stage Name of Insect order Unique Type of Mode of Damage Major/Minor Pictures
of Host Insect Characteristics Mouthpart
Coffee Fruiting Stage Coffee Coleoptera -Short clubbed Chewing Increase Major
or Fruit Berry Borer shaped antennae vulnerability of
development and short stiff infected ripe berry.
hairs covering Feed solely on
the body. coffee beans. Other
insects may
occasionally nibble
the seeds or other
parts of the coffee
plant but will need
 to eat other
vegetation for
sustenance.
Cotton Start at Leaf Mealy bugs Homoptera -Slow moving, Sucking Sucks the cell sap Major
development oral insects that from the leaves,
are covered with fruit and twigs.
a cottony wax Serious attacks
result in delayed
growth and late
opening of bolls
which severely
affects yield. It
feeds on soft tissues
and injects saliva,
which causes
curling of the
leaves.
Bananas Vegetative Banana Homoptera -Small reddish Sucking, Phloem feeder that Major
Stage Aphids to almost black piercing uses its long stylets
oval shaped to pierce plant
tissues to suck the
sap directly from
the vessels. This can
cause plants to
become deformed;
the leaves become
curled and
shriveled, and in
some cases, galls
are formed on the
leaves (Metcalf,
1962).
Palm oil Leaf Nettle or Lepidoptera They are Sucking, Loss of leaves by Major
 development Slug brightly in color, feeding on them.
caterpillar mostly bluish or The caterpillars
greenish in color consume large
and sometimes amounts of plant
with stripes. tissue and leave
behind only the
veins and stems. As
a result, the plants
are not able to
photosynthesize
properly, leading to
reduced yields in
crops.
Coconut Stem elongation Red palm Coleoptera Very large Chewing, The hole can be Major
or shoot Weevil beetles, attaining piercing seen on the stem
development to have body with chewed up
lengths, fibers protruding
including the out. Damage inside
rostum of 35 to the stem or crown
40 mm by feeding on soft
tissues and often
cause severe
damage especially
when a large
number of them
bore into the soft,
growing parts. In
case of severe
infestation, the
inside portion of
trunk is completely
eaten and become
full of rotting fibers.
CRUCIFERS
Host Growth stage of Name of Insect order Unique Type of Mode of Damage Major/Minor Pictures
Host Insect Characteristics Mouthpart
Broccoli -Germination Caterpillar Lepidoptera -cylindrical Chewing Mustard whites have a Minor
-Seed Stage bodies dashed yellow line down
-Vegetative consisting of their sides. They will all
Growth multiple chew holes in the leaves
-Maturation segments, with of your broccoli, which
three pairs of can stunt or even kill the
true legs on the plant if they appear in
thorax and large enough numbers.
several pairs of
short, fleshy
prolegs on the
abdomen
Cauliflower germination Snail Mollusca snails possess a Rasping underground tubers, Major
stage, seedling soft, tube-shaped leaves and fruit.
stage, vegetative body, a
stage, and the muscular foot
maturation or for locomotion,
flowering stage. one or more
pairs of tentacles
emerging from
the head, and
small eyes at the
top of the base
of the main
stalks. The most
conspicuous
feature that all
species share is
the spiral shell.
Mustard germination, leaf Aphids Hemiptera soft-bodied and Piercing and Curling may occur in Major
development, pear-shaped sucking infested leaves and at
stem elongation, with a pair of advanced stage plants
inflorescence cornicles, or may wither and die
emergence, little horns,
flowering, fruit projecting from
development, the rear end of
ripening and their abdomens
senescence
Cabbage seed Cutworm Lepidoptera smooth with Chewing Cutworms normally feed Major
germination, very few hairs close to the soil surface,
sprouting, 6-8 and are about clipping off seedlings or
true leaves two inches when chewing leaves that touch
appearing, 9-12 fully grown the ground.
true leaves Uncommonly, cutworms
appearing, bore into cabbage heads.
 precupping,
cupping, early
head formation,
head fill, and
maturation
Radish germination, Flea beetles Coleoptera bluish or brown Chewing chew irregular holes in Major
seedling, and to metallic gray the leaves
leaf growth large back legs
flourishing
stages.

LEGUMES
Host Growth stage Name of Insect Unique Type of Mode of Major/Minor Pictures
of Host Insect order Characteristics Mouthpart Damage
PEAS Germination, Mites Arachnida they have only Piercing piercing plant Major
Seedling two main body and sucking cells with their
establishment, parts: a mouthparts and
Vegetative combined head sucking the plant
growth, and thorax juices. They
reproductive section, and an sometimes
development, abdomen. colonize
and senescence Adults have four underside of the
pairs of legs leaf.
although some
only have three
pairs of legs
 until they
mature. All
species of mites
are wingless.
LENTILS Germination, Aphids Hemiptera soft-bodied and Piercing sucking the Major
emergence, pear-shaped and sucking juices from
vegetative stage with a pair of leaves and stems,
and reproductive cornicles, or causing
stage little horns, discoloration,
projecting from leaf curling,
the rear end of yellowing, and
their abdomens stunted growth.
CHICKPEA Emergence, pod Aphids Hemiptera soft-bodied and Piercing sucking the Major
S set, flowering pear-shaped and sucking juices from
with a pair of leaves and stems,
cornicles, or causing
little horns, discoloration,
projecting from leaf curling,
the rear end of yellowing, and
their abdomens stunted growth.

SOYBEANS Vegetative and Soybean Lepidopter presence of Piercing- defoliation Major

reproductive looper a scales that cover sucking pattern, feeding
growth the bodies, from the lower,
wings, and a inside canopy
proboscis and then moving
up and outwards

KIDNEY Germination thrips Thrips elongate, Piercing- bleached-out Major

BEANS slender, minute, sucking lesions along the
and have long leaf veins
fringes on the
margins of both
pairs of their
long, narrow
wings