Insect Hotline Issue 16

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Masked chafer white grub (notice lack of pattern of the spines)

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Japanese beetle white grub (notice the v-shaped pattern to the spines)

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Oriental beetle white grub (notice the parallel lines of spines)

These are three common white grub species that may be found in turfgrass.

Insect Hotline Issue 15

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Pupal skin sticking out of the trunk of a tree.  Insect has emerged from the pupal skin which is left in the tree.  Photo provided by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, bugwood.org

 

 

ash borer, Podosesia syringae  (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) - 1304043

Adult Lilac/ash borer, Podosesia syringae, pinned for viewing.  Photo provided by:  Carroll Younce, USDA-ARS, bugwood.org

Disease Hotline Issue 16

Rust found on Hypericum.  Photo provided by:  Bob Mulrooney, University of Delaware

 

 

 

 

Rust on upper leaf surface of hypericum.  Photo provided by:  Bob Mulrooney, University of Delaware

 

 

 

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