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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. |
