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List of the 20 Most Damaging Insect Species or Complexes in Georgia
in 1996. |
Rank |
Insect |
Control |
Damage |
Total Losses |
1 |
Scale & mealybugs2 |
$43,513,000 |
$55,166,000 |
$98,679,000 |
2 |
Termites3 |
58,600,000 |
17,000,000 |
75,600,000 |
3 |
Mites17 |
26,092,000 |
34,013,000 |
60,105,000 |
4 |
Imported fire ants5 |
35,962,500 |
12,505,000 |
48,467,500 |
5 |
Flies9 |
29,838,000 |
13,352,000 |
43,094,000 |
6 |
Mole Crickets6 |
13,504,000 |
23,441,000 |
36,945,000 |
7 |
Thrips7 |
23,683,000 |
11,885,000 |
35,568,000 |
8 |
Heliocoverpa zea10 |
19,101,000 |
16,196,000 |
35,297,000 |
9 |
Cockroaches3 |
22,437,500 |
5,000,000 |
27,437,500 |
10 |
Aphids8 |
9,003,600 |
18,588,000 |
27,591,600 |
11 |
Ants3(excluding fire ants) |
12,762,500 |
3,000,000 |
15,762,000 |
12 |
Mosquitoes9 |
15,656,000 |
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15,656,000 |
13 |
Fleas3 |
7,925,000 |
5,000,000 |
12,925,000 |
14 |
White grubs13 |
4,614,000 |
7,442,000 |
12,056,000 |
15 |
Plant & Stink bugs16 |
3,610,000 |
8,165,000 |
11,775,000 |
16 |
Tobacco budworm4 |
10,488,000 |
479,000 |
10,967,000 |
17 |
Horn Fly14 |
2,311,000 |
7,117,000 |
9,428,000 |
18 |
Whiteflies11 |
5,853,000 |
3,495,000 |
9,348,000 |
19 |
Boil Weevil15 |
7,397,000 |
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7,397,000 |
20 |
Pecan weevil |
4,050,000 |
2,099,000 |
6,149,000 |
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1 Apple, and ornamental.
2 Apple, ornamental, and peach (not including whitefly)..
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
(sweet corn includes fall armyworm in estimate).
11 Cotton, ornamental, and vegetable.
12 Forest
13 Lawn and turf, and pasture and forage.
14 Livestock and poultry.
15 Cotton.
16 Apple, cotton, field corn, grain sorghum, peach, pecan, small grain,
soybean, and vegetable.
17 Apple, cotton, livestock & poultry, ornamentals, and pecans. |
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