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Image Subject Name Scientific Name Description
1317084 Mediterranean fruit fly, Medfly Ceratitis capitata
1316002 glassy-winged sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis
1317083 Mediterranean fruit fly, Medfly Ceratitis capitata
1320006 boll weevil Anthonomus grandis grandis Dedicated in 1919, the Boll Weevil Monument, in Enterprise, Alabama, is symbolic of just how important the boll weevil is in the South.
0660080 Japanese beetle Popillia japonica
1316038 pteromalid wasps Muscidifurax raptor Mucidifurax raptor wasp on a fly puparium. Once the female chooses a suitable puparium host, she lays a single egg in it. The egg hatches, and the wasp larva feeds on the fly pupa.
1316039 pteromalid wasps Muscidifurax raptor House fly puparia, each with a hole from which a single wasp emerged after feeding on the pupa. Feeding occurs in the larval stage, and the wasp eventually emerges as an adult.
1318040 monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus
1319021 fire ant decapitating flies Pseudacteon spp. emerging
1319023 red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta
1320022 fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda Fall armyworms may grow to only half their normal inch-and-a-half size if the Mir1 gene from corn germplasm lines Mp704 and 708 can be bred into commercial varieties.
1321015 Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata
1322001 Ichneumonid wasp Diapetimorpha introitus
1323012 lacewings
1323013 lacewings
1324033 eastern subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes Soldiers of the native Eastern subterranean termite. Compare the rectangular head capsule of these soldiers with the oval head capsule of Formosan subterranean termite soldiers. Note the powerful mandibles (jaws) for defense of the colony. This subterranean termite lacks the nozzle- shaped gland in the Formosan subterranean termite.
1320014 western corn rootworm Diabrotica virgifera virgifera Corn rootworm larva.
1265116 citrophilus mealybug Pseudococcus calceolariae when disturbed, secrete a red liquid as a means of defense. Note the two droplets on the large mealybug in the center.

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