Web Links for Florida Pest Insects
Introduction
With the warm and humid climate found throughout much of Florida, a
wide range of insects can become pests to residents. The following list
of web links are presented to assist Florida residents in identifying
and understanding pest insects they may encounter. We have organized
these into several categories:
Plague
and Swarm Pests: Insects that appear rapidly in large number,
often seasonal pests
Household
Pests: Pest insects that invade residences and businesses
Stinging
and Biting Pests: Pest insects that cause stings or bites on
humans and animals
Garden
and Landscape Pests: Insects that cause problems with garden
and landscape plants and other outdoor problem insects
Beneficial
Insects: Insects that are beneficial to humans, often as
predators on pest insects
Note: as time goes by, many of these links disappear. If you
notice one missing, contact rmankin@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu and we will try
to update it.
Plague and Swarm Pests
Asian Cockroaches -- spring
through fall
Asian
Ladybeetle--spring
Biting midges(No-see-ums,
sandflies) -- spring through fall
Collembola
(Springtails)--spring
- Grasshoppers
- Lubbers
- Common grasshoppers
- American grasshoppers
Lovebugs -- summer
Lovebugs -- more
Midges--spring through fall
Millipedes -- summer
Termites --
spring
Household Pests
General
Information
- Ants
- Fire
ant control in urban areas
- Texas
Fire Ant Research and Management
- USDA
Areawide Fire Ant Suppression
- Fire Ants - Lawn and Turf
- Cockroaches
- Cockroach Control
Manual
Homeowner
Cockroach Control
Cockroach
Links
Least Toxic Cockroach
Control
- Fleas
- Cat
Flea
- Flea contol
- Integrated
Flea Control
- Pet-Centered
Flea Prevention and Control
- Flea
Control with nematodes not a sure thing
- Flies
- House
fly
- Stable fly
- Black dump fly
- General
- FAIRS-EDIS
CD-ROM
- Health Canada Pest
Control Links
- School
Integrated Pest Management: Non-pesticidal produccts
- Selecting
a reliable pest control operator
- Lice
- Removing
head lice safely
- Head lice
information
- Head
lice resources
- Body
and Head louse
- Human lice
- Head lice
- Head lice-
Harvard School of Public Health
- Head
lice - CDC
Silverfish
Stored
Product Pests
- Termites
- General
termite informationTermite
control for homeowners
Stinging and Biting Pests
- Bed Bugs
- Bedbugs and
Blood-Sucking Conenose
- Bed
bugs - NC State
- UC
Pest Management Guidelines - Bed Bugs
Black fly
- Honey-bees
- Honey bee research
- Honey
bee web links
- APIS Newsletter
- Bee links
- Africanized
honey-bee
- Head louse
- Removing
head lice safely
- Head lice
information
- Head
lice resources
- Body
and Head louse
- Human lice
- Head lice
- Harvard
School of Public Health
- CDC
- Hornet & Yellow-jacket
- Hornets
and yellowjackets
- Wasps/hornets/yellowjackets
- School IPM for
hornets and yellowjackets
- Mosquitoes
- Mosquitoes
- EDIS
- American
Mosquito Control Association Information page
- Public Health Entomology Research
and Education Center
- Florida Medical Entomology
Laboratory
- West Nile Virus
- WNV - EDIS
- WNV
- AMCA links
- WNV in horses
- No-see-ums (Biting Midges, Sandflies)
- Biting Midges of Coastal
Florida
- Stable fly
- Filth-breeding flies
- Stable fly control
- Yellow
fly, deer fly, and horse fly
Garden and Landscape Pests
- Overview:
- Foliage
- Landscape
- WoodyPest links
- Home Garden
- Insects on vegetable
crops
- Vegetable garden
insects sheet 1
- Vegetable garden
insects sheet 2
Insect pests by
vegetable crop
- Aphids:
- Home ornamentals
On citrus
Brown citrus
Brown
citrus-more
Green
peach
Cotton
or Melon
Oleander
- Beetles
(Coleoptera):
- Southern Pine Beetle
- Southern
Pine Beetle-more
- Diaprepes Root Weevil
- Diaprepes
Root Weevil-more
- White grub biology and
management
- White
grub
- Banded
cucumber beetle
- Colorado
potato beetle
- Pepper
weevil
- Sweet
potato weevil
- Chinch Bugs
- Chinch Bug management
- Southern
chinch bug
- Fire Ants
- Fire
ant control in urban areas
- Texas
Fire Ant Research and Management
- USDA
Areawide Fire Ant Suppression
- Fire Ants - Lawn and Turf
Flies:
- Fungus
gnats
Leafminers
Leafminers2
Leafminers3
Gall
midges
Caribbean
fruit fly
Mediterranean
fruit fly
Gall Formers:
- Citrus
Gall Midge
- Lace bugs:
- Sycamore
lace bug
- Lepidopterans
(caterpillars
- Caterpillars on
ornamental plants
Armyworms
Southern
armyworm
Beet
armyworm
Fall
armyworm
Tropical Sod Webworms
Corn
earworm
Cabbage
looper
Diamondback
moth
- Mealybugs:
- Scale insects and
mealybugs on ornamentals
- Pink
hibiscus mealybug
Mites
Two spotted spider
mite
- Broadmite
- Bermudagrass mite
-
- Mole Crickets:
- Biological control with
nematodes
- MCricket CD-ROM/
- Mole
Cricket pest species
-
- Scale Insects:
- Scale insects on
ornamental plants
- Scale insects and
mealybugs on ornamentals
- Ground Pearls
- Lobate
lac scale
- Cottony
cushion scale
-
- Spiders
- Venomous spiders
- Brown
Recluse
-
- Spittlebugs
Thrips:
- On ornamentals
-
- Turfgrass insects sheet 1
Turfgrass insects sheet 2
-
- Whiteflies:
- Whiteflies and control
around the home
- Whitefly Knowledgebase
- Silverleaf (or sweet
potato) whitefly
- Silverleaf
(or sweet potato) whitefly2
Beneficial Insects
General Links
- Coleoptera:
- Tiger beetles
-
- Damselflies and dragonflies
- Odonate
Links
-
- Flies:
- Predatory
gall midge
- Robber flies
-
- Brown
lacewing for insect control
Ladybugs
- Ladybugs for insect
control on citrus
-
- Mantids
Wasps
- Ensign wasps
- Parasite
on caribbean fruit fly
- Parasitoid
on brown citrus aphid
- Parasitoid
on citrus whitefly
- Parasitoid
on diamondback moths
-
- Predatory Hemipterans:
- Predatory
stink bug
- Florida
predatory stink bug
- Bigeyed
bugs
- Spined
soldier bug
- Predatory
stink bug
- Wheel
bug
Spiders
Richard J. Lobinske1
Faith Oi2
Rebecca Baldwin2
Cynthia L. Tucker2
Richard Mankin 3
University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences:
1Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, Apopka.
2Department of Entomology and Nematology, Gainesville.
3 Usda-ARS Center for Medical, Agriculture, and Veterinary Entomology
10/27/09