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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 />

LIST OF SOME<br />

SPECIES<br />

(contd)<br />

Larvae have<br />

‘stingers’<br />

Cutworm damage<br />

Moth leafminers<br />

may belong to<br />

other families, eg<br />

silkyoak leafminer<br />

(see below)<br />

Not known in<br />

Australia,<br />

monitored in<br />

northern Australia<br />

Biological<br />

control agents<br />

COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME HOST RANGE (caterpillars)<br />

(not exhaustive)<br />

CASE MOTHS, BAGWORMS (Family Psychidae)<br />

Saunders' case moth,<br />

large bagworm (Qld)<br />

Oiketicu elongatus<br />

Eucalypt, teatree, melaleuca,<br />

citrus, ornamentals<br />

Others Clania spp., Hyalarcta spp Teatree, pine, many garden<br />

plants eg roses<br />

CUP MOTHS (Family Limacodidae)<br />

Chinese junks (larvae) Doratifera spp. Eucalypt, brush box, apricot,<br />

guava<br />

CUTWORMS, ARMYWORMS, NOCTUIDS,<br />

SEMI-LOOPERS (Family Noctuidae)<br />

Armyworms<br />

Leucania spp., Spodoptera<br />

spp., Persectania sp.<br />

Common cutworm, Agrotis infusa<br />

Bogong moth<br />

Black cutworm A. ipsilon<br />

Brown cutworm, A. munda<br />

pink cutworm<br />

Corn earworm, cotton Helicoverpa armigera<br />

bollworm, tomato grub,<br />

Grasses, cereals<br />

Newly sown crops,<br />

transplanted seedlings<br />

cereals, fodder <strong>and</strong> field<br />

crops, vines, weeds,<br />

ornamentals<br />

Sweetcorn, sorghum, tomato,<br />

pea, strawberry, cotton, many<br />

other crops<br />

tobacco budworm<br />

Native budworm H. punctigera Tomato, linseed, other plants<br />

Loopers Chrysodeixis spp. Wide range, ornamentals,<br />

field, vegetable, weeds<br />

Grapevine moth Phalaenoides glycinae Vines, fuchsia, Hibbertia sp.,<br />

Glycine, Gnaphalium<br />

Gumleaf skeletonizer Uraba lugens Eucalypts<br />

HAWK MOTHS (Family Sphingidae)<br />

Australian privet hawk<br />

moth<br />

Psilogramma menophron<br />

menophron<br />

Jasmine, native olive (Olea<br />

paniculata)<br />

Convolvulus hawk moth Agrius convolvuli Convolvulus <strong>and</strong> other plants<br />

Grapevine hawk moth<br />

Vine hawk moth<br />

Hippotion celerio<br />

Theretra oldenl<strong>and</strong>iae<br />

LEAFBLOTCH MINERS (Family Gracillariidae)<br />

Azalea leafminer Caloptilia azaleella<br />

Citrus leafminer Phyllocnistis citrella<br />

Oak leafminer<br />

Phyllonorycter messaniella<br />

Wattle leafminer Acrocercops plebeia<br />

LEAFROLLER MOTHS (Family Tortricidae)<br />

Codling moth<br />

Cydia pomonella<br />

Lightbrown apple moth Epiphyas postvittana<br />

Oriental fruit moth<br />

(peach tip moth)<br />

Grapholita molesta<br />

Silkyoak leafminer Peraglyphis atimana Grevillea<br />

PYRALID MOTHS (Family Pyralidae)<br />

Webbing caterpillars, Catamola spp.,<br />

teatree caterpillars other genera<br />

Cedar shoot caterpillar,<br />

cedar tip borer<br />

Pasture webworms<br />

European corn borer<br />

Redb<strong>and</strong>ed mango<br />

caterpillar<br />

Hypsipyla robusta<br />

Hednota spp.<br />

Ostrinia nubilalis<br />

Deanolis sublimbalis<br />

Grapes<br />

Grapes, related plants, sweet<br />

potatoes<br />

Azaleas<br />

All citrus, finger lime.<br />

Oak, beech, chestnut<br />

Wattle<br />

Pome fruit<br />

Wide range, fruit trees,citrus,<br />

grapes, ornamentals, weeds<br />

Stone fruit, sometimes apples<br />

Wide range, small leafed<br />

Myrtaceae, eg Astartea,<br />

Leptospermum, Kunzea,<br />

Melaleuca, Thryptomene<br />

Bores into tips of red cedar<br />

(Toona australis)<br />

Cereals <strong>and</strong> pasture grasses<br />

Overseas, maize, other crops<br />

Mango fruit, other fresh fruit<br />

Cactoblastis Cactoblastis cactorum Imported to biologically<br />

control prickly pear<br />

Waterhyacinth moth Sameodes albiguttalis Water hyacinth<br />

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

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