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PLANT PROTECTION 1 – Pests, Diseases and Weeds

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<strong>PLANT</strong> <strong>PROTECTION</strong> 1 – <strong>Pests</strong>, <strong>Diseases</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Weeds</strong><br />

BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS<br />

Summary - Some exceptions<br />

SOME DISTINCTIVE FEATURES<br />

BUTTERFLIES ADULT Flight Day flying<br />

Colour Bright<br />

Antennae Clubbed<br />

Wings Vertical when at<br />

rest<br />

LARVA Legs<br />

3 pairs legs<br />

on the thorax<br />

<strong>and</strong> up to<br />

5 pairs prolegs on<br />

the abdomen<br />

<strong>PLANT</strong> DAMAGE (caterpillars)<br />

DIRECT FEEDING DAMAGE.<br />

LEAVES<br />

FLOWERS<br />

BUDS<br />

FRUIT<br />

Leaves eaten, eg citrus<br />

butterflies<br />

Chewing damage, eg<br />

grass blue butterfly<br />

‘Worm’ damage, eg<br />

pea butterfly<br />

SEEDLINGS Chewing damage, eg<br />

SHOOTS cabbage white<br />

butterfly<br />

INDIRECT DAMAGE.<br />

Frass, eg cabbage white butterfly<br />

MOTHS ADULT Flight Nightflying; moths<br />

are attracted to lights<br />

at night; a few dayflying<br />

moths are<br />

brightly coloured, eg<br />

grapevine moth<br />

Colour Often drab coloured<br />

Antennae Not clubbed<br />

Wings<br />

LARVA Legs<br />

Fig. 50. Whitestemmed gum moth caterpillar<br />

(Chelepteryx collesi). PhotoNSW Dept of Industry <strong>and</strong> Investment.<br />

Wings flat when at<br />

rest<br />

As for butterflies<br />

DIRECT FEEDING DAMAGE.<br />

LEAVES<br />

FLOWERS<br />

BUDS<br />

FRUIT<br />

Leaves eaten, eg cup<br />

moth<br />

Leafmining, eg oak<br />

blotch miner<br />

Skeletonization, eg<br />

gumleaf<br />

skeletonizer<br />

Chewing damage eg<br />

corn earworm<br />

‘Worm’ damage, eg<br />

codling moth<br />

Surface chewing, eg<br />

lightbrown apple<br />

moth<br />

STEMS Borers, eg fruit-tree<br />

BARK moth borer<br />

SEEDLINGS Chewing damage, eg<br />

SHOOTS cutworms<br />

INDIRECT DAMAGE.<br />

Frass, eg all caterpillars<br />

Formation of structures, eg case<br />

moths<br />

Introduction of decay organisms,<br />

eg oriental fruit moth<br />

Fig. 51. Painted apple moth caterpillar<br />

(Teia anartoides). PhotoNSW Dept of Industry <strong>and</strong> Investment.<br />

Fig. 52. Cup moth caterpillar (Doratifera spp.)<br />

PhotoCIT,<br />

Canberra (P.W.Unger).<br />

82 Insects <strong>and</strong> allied pests - Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths)

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