The Tarnished Plant Bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvais) in Conifer Nurseries
From Entomology Circulars.
Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), the tarnished plant bug, attacks a wide variety of herbaceous plants, vegetable crops, commercial flower plants, fruit trees, and nursery stock (Kelton 1975). Less well known, but of increasing importance, is that L. …read more
Garden Fleahopper, Halticus Bractatus (Say)
From Entomology Circulars.
The garden fleahopper is a widely distributed plant bug that sporadically attacks a variety of forage, vegetable, and ornamental crops, at numerous times over the past 100 years it has caused heavy damage to crops in the United States and along the west coast of Mexico, but present day commercial growers, using modern insecticides, seldom have trouble with it. …read more
