This series of Key Plant, Key Pests publications are designed for Florida gardeners, horticulturalists, and landscape professionals to help identify common pests associated with regional flora. This new 6-page publication of the UF/IFAS Environmental Horticulture Department helps identify the most common pests found on trees in the sycamore group, Platanus spp., and it provides information and general management recommendations for sycamore lace bug, bacterial leaf scorch, powdery mildew, anthracnose, and canker stain. Written by Matthew Borden, Kelly Laplante, Juanita Popenoe, Adam Dale, Caroline R. Warwick, and Brian Pearson.
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ep601
Tag: Matthew Borden
New Featured Creatures for October 2016
- A Bark Beetle Hypothenemus eruditus Westwood, 1836
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1147 - Fourlined Plant Bug Poecilocapsus lineatus (Fabricius)
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1151 - Insidious Flower Bug, Minute Pirate Bug Orius insidiosus Say
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1148 - Longtailed Mealybug Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti)
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1149 - Tuliptree Scale Toumeyella liriodendra (Gmelin)
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1150