1. Pest management

2. Common Greenhouse pests

3. Aphids Piercing/sucking mouthpart Honeydew Come in different colors
Can fly
Born pregnant
Control: Lady bugs, green lacewings, parasitic wasp, systemic, Ultra Pure-oil

5. Mealy bugs Feed on plant juices, spread diseases Honeydew
Control: Cryptolaemus beetles, Ultra Pure-oil

6. Fungus gnats
Dark delicate-looking flies similar in appearance to mosquitoes
Larvae feed on plant roots
Shore flies
Control: moisture management, nematodes

7. Thrips Rasping/sucking mouth parts
Feed on plant juices, spread disease
Very small (1mm)
Can fly carried in wind
feed in rapidly growing tissue, flowers
Stippling
Control: predatory mites

8. White fly Similar to aphids Suck phloem sap, spread disease Honeydew
Nymphs cause the most damage
Control: Encarsia formosa

9. Scale Piercing sucking mouthparts
Feeds on plant juices, spread disease
Honeydew
Control: Cryptolaemus montrouzieri, aphytis melinus, Ultra Pure-oil

10. Spider mites Related to spiders Suck plant juices
heavy infestations cause the leaves to look chlorotic, stippled, or mottled in appearance
Hard to detect until plants are already heavily infested
Control: Predatory mites, systemic

11. Ants
Attracted to honeydew
Protect pest from boilogicals

12. Biological pest control
Prevention
Create an ecosystem

13. Lady bugs Feed on aphids and other soft bodied insects
Larvae are more aggressive (aphid lion)
Harvested and sent in large quanteties (migratory)

14. Aphidius matricariae Parasitic wasp Controls: aphids Brown cases
Shipped in juice bottle
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15. Aphidoletes aphidimyza
Adults feed on honey dew, live for about 10 days
Active only at night
Larvae are small orange worms
Larvae paralyze then suck out the aphids
Larvae can consume aphids much larger than themselves and may kill many more aphids than they eat

16. Green lacewings
Feed on: Aphids, mealy bug, thrips, mites, and whitefly
Active at night
Larvae is much more agresive
Shipped on card strips

17. Encarsia formosa Parasitic wasp Feeds on immature whitefly
Female adult lays egg in all immature stages of whitefly and the larvae feed on blood
Emergence hole
Order on: card strips

18. Stratiolaelaps scimitus
Predatory mite
Feed on: Thrips, fungus gnats
Comes in bran in canisters

19. Amblyseius cucumeris
Feeds on thrips
Comes in bran in canisters

20. Nematodes Microscopic worms Feed on fungus gnat larvae
Mix 50 gallons at a time
Apply in non- pressurized sprayer
Do not let water get contaminated with chemicals or you will kill nematodes
Keep water agitated

21. Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
Feeds on: Mealy bug, scale
lay their eggs in the cottony egg-masses produced by mealy bugs
Eggs hatch into white, shaggy-coated larvae (a wolf in sheep’s clothing)
Larvae are much more mobile than mealy bug

22. Aphytis melinus Feeds on: Several species of armored scale
Adult female deposits an egg beneath the scale cover, and larvae feed on scale
Chews small exit hole

23. Ultra Pure-oil Controls soft bodied insects like aphids and mealy bug
Will also control scale to some extent if applied consistently
Suffocates bugs
70 mL alcohol and120mL oil/ 3 gal water