Pesticide: Ornamental and Turf Pests Latest Update Graded A+

Pesticide: Ornamental and Turf Pests Latest Update Graded A+ Insect classification head, thorax, and abdomen. Classified by mouth and wing structure Mouth parts adapted for piercing and sucking, chewing, sponging, and siphoning piercing-sucking mouthparts have long, slender tubes to force into plant or animal tissue to suck out fluid or blood. Piercing and sucking insects Stable flies, sucking lice, bed bugs, mosquitoes, and aphids Chewing mouthparts toothed jaws to bite and tear Chewing insects ants, beetles, caterpillars, and grasshoppers Sponging mouthparts tubular tongue-like structures and spongy tips to soak up liquids or soluble food. Sponging insects may extrude digestive fluids onto the food before sponging. Includes houseflies, flesh flies, and blow flies Siphoning mouthparts have a long tube for sucking nectar Siphoning insects butterflies and moths incomplete metamorphosis A type of metamorphosis with three stages: egg, nymph, and adult. complete metamorphosis Insect development consisting of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult silk shelters usually do not enclose foliage. Caterpillars feed outside the shelter and use it for protection from weather, predators etc. Web enclosed foliage silk webs enclosing foliage with caterpillars feeding inside insect or mite remains egg shells, shed skins, cocoons, frass, and trails of silk scale and aphid covering most scales and some aphids excrete a protective waxy covering honeydew sticky liquid sugar excreted by insects. Black sooty mold may grow on honeydew sawdust, wood chips and pitch balls material on or below trunks from feeding by bark beetles, wood borers, and shoot borers spider mites controlled by predatory