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Saissetia oleae (olive scale)
S. oleae is one of the most important pests of citrus in the Mediterranean Basin, Florida, California and South America (Bartlett, 1978). Gill...
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Trialeurodes vaporariorum (whitefly, greenhouse)
Whiteflies damage plants directly by sucking sap from leaves and indirectly by transmitting viruses and producing a sticky secretion known as...
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Heteropsylla cubana (leucaena psyllid)
Showler (1995) provides a good synopsis of the impacts of H. cubana on cultivation of leucaena, which is largely reiterated here. The economic...
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Spodoptera exempta (black armyworm)
Losses to agricultural production due to S. exempta are frequently significant and intermittently devastating on a local, national and regional...
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Nomadacris septemfasciata (red locust)
There are few good quantitative data on economic damage. The best attempts are from South Africa, though these are from the 1930s. Damage to...
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Aculops lycopersici (tomato russet mite)
A. lycopersici may cause serious reductions in yield in tomato crops, especially when young plants are exposed to attack. Losses of up to 65% have...
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Bemisia tabaci (B biotype) (silverleaf whitefly)
The exact origin of the B biotype of B. tabaci, and the reasons why it became such an important pest are still not fully known. The B biotype was...
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Bemisia tabaci (tobacco whitefly)
B. tabaci and its biotypes are polyphagous and now attack many crops, but without significant impact on land use. Any effects on biodiversity would...
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Sternochetus mangiferae (mango seed weevil)
S. mangiferae is a monophagous pest on mangoes. It is one of the most important mango pests and widespread in most mango-growing...
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Liriomyza sativae (vegetable leaf miner)
L. sativae is the most serious of the agromyzid pests, causing severe damage and loss of yield in many of the southern states of America,...
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