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Resource Manual on IPPM in Vegetable
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9. Striped Blister Beetle
Epicauta vittata
Family: Meloidae
Plants attacked: Many vegetables
Type of damage: Adults feed ravenously on
foliage.
Remember: This general feeder readily moves
from plant to plant. The beetles can be picked off the foliage. However, they contain an
oil that can blister the skin if they are accidentally crushed. The larvae of blister beetles
are beneficial because they feed on grasshopper eggs in the soil.
10. Wireworms
Family: Elateridae
Plants attacked: Many vegetables
Type of damage: Wireworms feed on seeds and
seedlings of corn, bean, and pea. They also cause
wilting and often death of the plant. Wireworms
feed on the marketable portions of potato, sweet
potato, radish, carrot, rutabaga, and turnip.
Wireworms also attack the roots of cabbage,
cucumber, tomato, onion, watermelon, and other crops thus, reducing vigor or killing the
plants.
Remember: Some species are more serious in gardens that are recently sodded.
Wireworms can be detected with baits (grain or potato) buried underground before
planting.
11. Imported Cabbageworm
Pieris rapae
Family: Pieridae
Plants attacked: Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli,
Brussels sprouts, radish, collard, mustard and kale
Type of damage: Caterpillars eat leaves producing
large irregular holes in leaves and into heads.
Cabbageworms stunt the growth of the plants. They
cause failure of the heads to form, thus making the
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