Plant pests

The codling moth is the most common and well-known pest of orchards. The pest's larvae damage apple, pear, peach, apricot, and plum trees; a special form develops on walnuts. Reproduction is bisexual. The last instar caterpillars overwinter in a dense cocoon. The number of generations per year depends on the climate of the location...

The oriental fruit moth - is a dangerous pest that damages the fruits and shoots of many fruit crops. Among forage plants it prefers peach, pear and quince. In areas of distribution it can destroy from 50 to 100% of the crop. Reproduction is bisexual. The transformation is complete. Winter conditions are tolerated by caterpillars in cocoons that have reached an advanced age...

The plum moth - is a pest of plums, sloe, cherry plum, peach, and rarely of cherries. Caterpillars feed on the pulp of fruits, destroying and polluting them with their excrement. Damaged fruits ripen prematurely and fall off. Reproduction is bisexual. Caterpillars overwinter in a dense cobweb cocoon. They develop in 2-3 generations, depending on the climate of the area of residence...

Leopard moth - is a dangerous pest that causes significant damage to orchards, damages apple, pear, apricot, and walnut trees. Caterpillars damage more than 100 species of forest, fruit and ornamental plants. They gnaw holes in the wood and disrupt the flow of sap. Damaged branches become brittle and break even in light winds. Reproduction is bisexual. Full development can take two to three years...

The grapevine moth - is a pest of grapes, berries and other crops. It develops successfully on privet, buckthorn, sloe, hawthorn, raspberry, currant, viburnum and other plants. It feeds on flowers, ovaries and fruits. Reproduction is bisexual, development is complete. Overwinters in the pupal stage. 3-4 generations appear per year...

The heart and dart - is a polyphagous pest. Damages grains, vegetables, and industrial crops. Damage was observed on winter wheat, rye, corn, cotton, sugar beets, tobacco, kenaf, sunflower, potatoes, vegetables, ornamental plants, and tree seedlings. Development is complete. Reproduction is bisexual...

The diamondback moth - is a dangerous pest of cabbage and other cruciferous vegetables (turnips, rapeseed, mustard, radishes, rutabaga). Development is complete. Reproduction is bisexual. Pupae and, in the south, butterflies overwinter. In the tropics and subtropics it develops throughout the year. The number of generations ranges from one (in the north of the habitat) to ten (in the southern part..

The turnip moth - is a pest of vegetable and melon crops, cereals, corn, cotton, sunflower, hemp, tobacco, sesame, grapes, tea bushes, seedlings and saplings of various tree species. Development is complete. Reproduction is bisexual. Caterpillars of older generations overwinter. In the north of the range one generation develops, in the south - three or four. Belongs to the economic group of gnawin..

The cotton bollworm - is a dangerous pest, a polyphagous plant. Damaged: corn, cotton, tomatoes, tobacco, chickpeas, sorghum, okra, pumpkin, zucchini, soybeans, castor beans, sesame, hemp, peas, kenaf, jute, rope, alfalfa, peppers, cabbage, beans, onions, peanuts, sunflowers, flax, apple, pear, plum, peach, mango, citrus, geranium, clove, lemon eucalyptus, verbena and some others...

Small mottled willow moth (tomato) - Tomato cutworm (Carandrina) - broad polyphagous. The list of forage plants includes 185 species from 50 families. Caterpillars are harmful. Feeds on cotton, alfalfa, sugar beets, corn, tobacco, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, tomatoes, potatoes, peas, turnips, eggplants, watermelons, clover, sainfoin, young citrus fruits, apple trees, quince, grapes, oak trees, elms..

Potato tuber moth - is a pest of plants of the nightshade family (potatoes, eggplants, tobacco, tomatoes, peppers, physalis). Caterpillars are harmful. Reproduction is bisexual. Development is complete. During the year, the development of from 2 to 14 generations can be observed, depending on the climate of the location. Caterpillars that have completed their development and cocoons overwinter. Ob..

The cabbage moth - is a polyphagous pest. Under natural conditions, caterpillars feed on a variety of plants, but prefer cruciferous plants and quinoa. Reproduction is bisexual. Development is complete. The pupae overwinter. Depending on the climate of the area of residence, from 1 to 3 generations develop...

The tomato leafminer damages vegetable crops of the nightshade family both indoors and outdoors. In addition to tomatoes, it damages eggplants, peppers, physalis, potatoes and many wild and ornamental plants. The tomato moth develops very quickly...

The mamestra oleacea - is a polyphagous pest. Damages cruciferous crops, tomatoes, potatoes, beets, rhubarb, cucumbers, strawberries, sunflowers, tobacco, poppy, and many others. Development is complete. Reproduction is bisexual. The pupae overwinter in the soil. In the north of the range one generation develops, in the south - two...

The tobacco cutworm - is a quarantine species and a dangerous pest of many cultivated and ornamental plants. Prefers tomato, tobacco, corn, rose, chrysanthemum and many others. Reproduction is bisexual. Development is complete. The caterpillar of the last, sixth generation overwinters in a pupa in the ground. From 4 to 8 generations develop during the season...

The meadow moth - is a polyphagous pest. Forage plants include hundreds of species from thirty-five families. It is characterized as a primary pest of sugar beets. Severely damages alfalfa, clover, hemp, cotton, sunflower, tobacco and many other garden, melon and industrial crops. Damages grapes, some tree species and cereals, including corn, but to a lesser extent...

The «Pea moth» - is the most important pest of grain peas. Reproduction is bisexual. Development is complete. Caterpillars that have completed their development overwinter. There is one generation per year, but sometimes some of the caterpillars range for two years. Partial second generation is possible in the southern part of the range...

The cherry fly - is an insect from the variegated fly family that harms cherries, sweet cherries, apricots, and honeysuckle. The larvae develop in fruits and feed on their pulp. Fruits damaged by the cherry fly darken, rot and often fall off. Reproduction is bisexual, transformation is complete. It overwinters in the pupal stage in the puparia in the soil. One generation develops per year, but som..

The Silverleaf whitefly -  is a quarantine species, a broad polyphagous plant, which harms more than 200 plants from 73 families. Spreads viruses dangerous to plants. Prefers vegetable, melon, industrial, flower and medicinal crops, as well as many types of weeds. Found on fruit, berry, citrus, ornamental and forest woody plants. The transformation is incomplete. Reproduction is bisexual. The..

Western flower thrips - is a quarantine pest. Damages about 300 species of flowering and vegetable crops in protected ground. Prefers different types of chrysanthemums, roses, gerberas, gypsophila, cineraria, cucumbers. Reproduction is bisexual. Development is incomplete. In closed ground conditions it develops continuously. It produces 12-15 generations per season...

Clothes moth is considered a pest due to its tendency to consume woolen, cotton and silk clothing. It is a tough insect that cannot be stopped by poor conditions, even being reported to withstand the effects of salt, a strong drying agent for insects. Lives in residential buildings, museums, warehouses with furs and wool...

The food moth is very similar to the regular one: it has gray wings, the upper part of which is lighter and the lower part is dark, and its length is approximately 1 centimeter. This insect lives for a maximum of 19 days. During this time, it manages to lay more than 300 eggs, from which larvae emerge - white or yellow-white caterpillars with a black head...