The Bugwood Network

List of the 20 Most Damaging Insect Species or Complexes in Georgia in 1995.


Rank

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

Insect

Mites1

Scale & mealybugs2

Cockroaches3

Tobacco budworm4

Termites3

Imported fire ants5

Mole Crickets6

Thrips7

Aphids8

Flies9

Ants3 (excluding fire ants)

Heliocoverpa zea10

Whiteflies11

Mosquitoes9

Fleas3

Southern pine beetle12

White grubs13

Horn Fly14

Boll Weevil15

Plant & Stink bugs16

Control

$44,408,000

41,948,000

41,510,000

38,562,000

31,133,000

33,979,000

13,503,000

 23,154,000

14,300,300

264,440,00

15,566,000

9,803,000

6,699,000

 15,683,000

10,377,000

476,000

4,528,000

2,561,000

8,195,000

 2,394,000

Damage

 $56,973,000

 52,796,000

 20,400,000

 20,115,000

 15,300,000

 12,010,000

 29,092,000

 15,650,000

 22,804,400

 3,021,000

 7,650,000

 6,668,000

 9,057,000

 0

5,100,000

12,843,000

 7,810,000

 8,6355,000

 0

 5,198,000

Total Losses

 $101,381,000

 94,744,000

 61,910,000

 58,677,000

 46,433,000

 45,989,000

 42,595,000

 38,804,000

 37,104,700

 29,465,000

 23,216,000

 16,471,000

 15,756,000

 15,683,000

15,477,000

13,319,000

12,338,000

 11,196,000

 8,195,000

 7,592,000


1 Apple, ornamental, and pecan.
2 Apple, ornamental, and peach.
3 Household and structural.
4 Cotton and tobacco.
5 Fire ant.
6 Lawn and turf, pasture and forage, and tobacco.
7 Cotton, ornamental, peanut, tobacco, and vegetable.
8 Apple, canola, cotton, grapes, ornamental, pecan, small grain, tobacco, and vegetable.
9 Public health and recreational areas.
10  Cotton, field corn, grain sorghum, peanut, soybean, and vegetable.
11 Cotton, ornamental, and vegetable.
12 Forest
13 Lawn and turf, and pasture and forage.
14 Livestock and poultry.
15  Cotton.
16 Apple, field corn, grain sorghum, lawn and turf, ornamental, pasture and forage, peach, pecan, small grain, soybean, and vegetable.

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