John C. French Sr.'s Images
Title: Professor Emeritus-Estension EntomologyOrganization: Retired, Universities:Auburn, GA, Clemson and U of MO
Unit: Entomology
Country: United States
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| Image | Subject Name | Scientific Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1599237 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Plastic container sitting on balances to determine the amount of moisture that must to be added to maintain the proper level in the container. |
| 1599234 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Three plastic containers showing the various moisture levels that the lesser cornstalk borer was held at in the laboratory to determine the effect of soil moisture on the length of the life cycle on this insect. Results are shown in another picture. This insect is usually only a major problem in very dry conditions. |
| 1599258 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Me(on left) and Dr. T. Canerday examining pieces of paper with lesser cornstalk borer? eggs on them. This is how I artificially enhanced natural populations of this insect in my research plots. |
| 1599259 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Plastic cages used to rear lesser cornstalk borers at different moisture levels. Droppers on cages were used to add moisture as needed to maintain required soil moisture levels. |
| 1599261 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Research containers used to rear lesser cornstalk borers at different soil moisture levels to determine the effect of soil moisture on the length of the life cycle of the insect. |
| 1599230 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Technician, Freddie Stansell counting and dividing eggs of the lesser c ornstalk borer into equal numbers to be placed in research plots on the Coastal Plain Experiment Station. |
| 1599222 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Applying granules with a tractor and two two-row granule applicators for the control of the lesser cornstalk borer. |
| 1599226 | Subterranean Dart Moth | Feltia subterranea | Aerial application of Dylor bait for control of granulate cutworm. |
| 1599221 | Subterranean Dart Moth | Feltia subterranea | Applying Dylox bait with an old lime spreader for the control of the granulate cutworm. |
| 1599219 | Subterranean Dart Moth | Feltia subterranea | I think this is a picture of a plane applying Dylox bait for the granulate cutworm. This bait was the best control for this insect that I ever experienced. |
| 1599227 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Containers for rearing lesser cornstalk borer at three different moisture levels to see what the effect would be on the length of the larvapupal stage of the insect would be. |
| 1599280 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Freddie Stansell placing Pieces of paper with lesser cornstalk borer eggs on them in research Plots on the Coastal Plain Experiment Station to enhance natural population. |
| 1599229 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Technician, Freddie Stansell placing laboratory collected eggs of the lesser cornstalk borer in research plots on the Gibbs Farm of the Coastal Plain Experiment Station. |
| 1599391 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | |
| 1599035 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | caused by early instars |
| 1599279 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Inverted peanuts in research conducted on W. C. Gibbs farm. Rows on left were treated with parathion granules to control lesser cornstalk borer and rows on right were untreated. Difference in yield is obvious. |
| 1599867 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | Dark phase of the velvetbean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatalis, feeding on a soybean leaf. |
| 1599864 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | Velvet bean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatalis, on the edge of a soybean leaf. |
| 1599878 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | Sixth instar corn earworm, Heliothis zea, feeding on the bud of a soyben plant. |
| 1599425 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599433 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | corn earworm feeding on peanut leaf. |
| 1599435 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | corn earworm feeding on a peanut leaf. |
| 1599437 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | corn earworm lying on damaged peanut leaf. |
| 1599442 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599536 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | Severe damage to a tobacco plant due to the feeding of the tobacco budworm- Heliothis virescens. |
| 1599575 | tobacco hornworm | Manduca sexta | Tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, on tobacco leaf rib; also shows leaf damage cause by this caterpillar. |
| 1599567 | tobacco hornworm | Manduca sexta | Tobacco hormworm egg on tobacco leaf, just before hatching. Manduca sexta. |
| 1599705 | European corn borer | Ostrinia nubilalis | European corn borer, Ostirinia nubilallis, tunneling in a cotton plant stem. |
| 1599736 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | Numerous cotton bolls and squares damage by an overwhelming population of cotton bowlworms, Heliothis zea. |
| 1599737 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | Close up picture of cotton bolls and squares damaged by an overwhelming population of cotton bowlworm, Heliothis zea. |
| 1599739 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | Cotton bowlworm, Heliothis zea, feeding on a cotton bloom. |
| 1599741 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | Cotton bolls damage by the cotton bowlworm, Heliothis zea. |
| 1599742 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | Cotton bowlworm, Heliothis zea, feeding in a cotton bloom . |
| 1599754 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | A cotton bowlworm, Helopthis zea, on a cotton leaf. |
| 1599774 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | Beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, on a cotton leaf |
| 1599775 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | Several early instar beet armyworm larvae feeding in the under side of a cotton leaf. |
| 1599856 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | Velvet bean caterpillar moth at reat on a soybean leaf |
| 1599857 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | Velvet bean caterpillarl, Anticarsia gemmatalis, moth at rest on a soybean leaf. |
| 1599858 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | Velvet bean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatalis, on the stem of a soybean plant |
| 1599859 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | Velvet bean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatallis, on the stem of a soybean plant. |
| 1599860 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | Dark phase of a velvet bean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatalis, on the leaf of a soybean plant. |
| 1599861 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | Light phase of the velvet bean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatalis, on a badly damaged soybean leaf. |
| 1599032 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599033 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599432 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599438 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599439 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | The larva and the egg is not very distinct. When these leaves open up, the damage will look like picture-window images on each side of the leaf. |
| 1599441 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599571 | tobacco hornworm | Manduca sexta | |
| 1599531 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | Two very early instar tobacco budworm larvae in tobacco bud. |
| 1599568 | tobacco hornworm | Manduca sexta | Tobacco hornworm on damaged tobacco leaf. |
| 1599569 | tobacco hornworm | Manduca sexta | Probably a third instar larva tobacco hornworm on tobacco leaf; also showing feeding damage |
| 1599570 | tobacco hornworm | Manduca sexta | Tobacco hornworm and feeding damaged tobacco leaf. |
| 1599379 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599408 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | vbc (foliage feeder)on peanuts This caterpillar varies in color from light green-white striped to black-whited striped. All have the typical yellow head as shone in picture. |
| 1599409 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | |
| 1599407 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | vbc (foliage feeder)on peanuts |
| 1599414 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | This damage is typical of most early instar foliage feeding caterpillars.. It can sometimes occur before the leaflets unfold. |
| 1599410 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | |
| 1599417 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599419 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599420 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599424 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599426 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | Granulate cutworms are usually found on the surface or beneath the surface of the soil during the day and they climb the plants on the foliage at night. |
| 1599427 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | The granulate cutworm is usually found on the surface of the soil under peanut plants, when the soil is wet, and beneath the surface when it is dry. |
| 1599048 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | cutworm is parasatized |
| 1599359 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599508 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599506 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599523 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | second instar larva |
| 1599525 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | Showing 3rd and 4th instar larva |
| 1599534 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599537 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599539 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599540 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599541 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599566 | tobacco hornworm | Manduca sexta | Hornworms very seldom significant economic damage to flue cured tobacco in GA. Large populations usually showed up after harvest was complete. |
| 1599416 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | |
| 1599406 | yellowstriped armyworm | Spodoptera ornithogalli | |
| 1599413 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | |
| 1599428 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | found just beneath the surface of the soil under peanut plant |
| 1599430 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | on surface of soil under peanut plant |
| 1599436 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599434 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599051 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | on an inverted field |
| 1599133 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Shows typical web feeding tubes attached to base and stem of plant |
| 1599162 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | web tube attached to pod at feeding site |
| 1599159 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599360 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599362 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | All pegs destroyed |
| 1599363 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | showiing feeding tube and web tunnel |
| 1599366 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Showing attached feeding tube |
| 1599367 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599368 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Showing feeding tubes |
| 1599369 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Showing multiple sites with feeding tubes attached |
| 1599370 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | early instar feeding |
| 1599375 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Base of plant showing multiple feeding tubes attached |
| 1599376 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Stunted peanuts due to damage |
| 1599378 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599381 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599386 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599396 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | These leaves were in contact with the soil. Damage done by early instar feeding. |
| 1599509 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599507 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599502 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599510 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599511 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599512 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599513 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599514 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599516 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | early instar |
| 1599517 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | Late instar feeding |
| 1599518 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | Late instar feeding in bud |
| 1599519 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | Late instar feeding in bud |
| 1599526 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599527 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | Late instar feeding in tobacco bud |
| 1599528 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599529 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599530 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | |
| 1599532 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | Young plant showing extensive damage. Flue cured tobacco. |
| 1599533 | tobacco budworm | Heliothis virescens | Flue cured tobacco. |
| 1599037 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599077 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599085 | yellowstriped armyworm | Spodoptera ornithogalli | |
| 1599134 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | This type of feeding on the surface of both stems and leaves by the early instars of the lesser cornstalk borer is very typical. They do not tunnel into the plant a significant extent. |
| 1599081 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | |
| 1599055 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599071 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599061 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599139 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Male has very distinct coloring and other characteristics |
| 1599149 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Tunneling in peanut stem |
| 1599150 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | In damaged peanut pod |
| 1599151 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | In damaged pod with typical webbing |
| 1599155 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Lesser cornstalk borer feeding damage on peanut pods showing webs hanging from some of the pods. This much damage by this insect occurs only in very dry weather, |
| 1599152 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599154 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599160 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Peanut stem showing lesser cornstalk borer feeding tube hanging from it |
| 1599161 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Lesser cornstalk borer lying on peanut stem that has been split open with feeding tube still attached to stem |
| 1599163 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599165 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599352 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599092 | whitemarked tussock moth | Orgyia leucostigma | |
| 1599357 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599148 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Webbing is always attached at the feeding sight on all plants that are hosts of lesser cornstalk borer. |
| 1599153 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599156 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599157 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599166 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599167 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599067 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | |
| 1599068 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | |
| 1599069 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | |
| 1599097 | rednecked peanutworm | Stegasta bosqueella | |
| 1599074 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599057 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599060 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599072 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599073 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599075 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | |
| 1599076 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | |
| 1599078 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | |
| 1599062 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599063 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599083 | velvetbean caterpillar | Anticarsia gemmatalis | |
| 1599135 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599136 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599140 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Male on right Female on left |
| 1599141 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599143 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599144 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599145 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599146 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599147 | lesser cornstalk borer | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | |
| 1599040 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599041 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599043 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599045 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599046 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599047 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599052 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599054 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599050 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599059 | bollworm | Helicoverpa zea | |
| 1599423 | granulate cutworm | Agrotis subterranea | |
| 1599415 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599066 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599776 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | Cotton aphids, Aphis gossypii, feeding on the underside of a cotton leaf. |
| 1599777 | beet armyworm | Spodoptera exigua | Cotton aphids, Aphis gossypii, feeding on the underside of a cotton leaf. |
| 1599421 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599418 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda | |
| 1599064 | fall armyworm | Spodoptera frugiperda |
