Image Number: 5492463

Photographer:
Descriptor:
Larva(e)
Description:
Nearly mature billbug that has chewed down turf stem, leaving behind sawdust-like frass, and is now eating the crown.
Image type:
Field

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Image location:
, Delaware, Ohio

Subject

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Curculionoidea
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Dryophthorinae
Tribe: Rhynchophorini
Genus: Sphenophorus
Subject: Sphenophorus parvulus Gyllenhal, 1838

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Poa
Subject: Poa pratensis L.
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Image uploaded:
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Image last updated:
Wednesday, May 1, 2013