Insect Pests of Small Grains

Insect Pests of Small Grains

This guide compiles recent research into a single, comprehensive guidebook. The authoritative text and full-color photographs help you diagnose pest symptoms and identify more than 15 pest insects commonly associated with wheat, barley, and oats in North America. Includes information on insect control and trapping.

Table of Contents

Early History of Agriculture and Insects; Plant Growth Stages; Insect Biology and Classification; Insect Trapping and Detection; Methods of Loss Assessment; Kinds of Damage Caused by Insects; Insect Control; Hail Damage; Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae); Morman Crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae); Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae); Chinch Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae); Say Stink Bugs (Hempitera: Pentatomidae); Aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae); Cutworms and Armyworms (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae); Cereal Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae); Wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae); False Wireworms (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae); Wheat Stem Sawfly (Hymenoptera: Cephidae); Wheat Jointworm (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae); Hessian Fly (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae); Wheat Stem Maggot (Diptera: Chloropidae);Grass Sheathminer (Diptera: Agromyzidae); Other Insect Pests of Small Grains; Glossary; Index