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Summary of Losses from Insect Damage and Costs of Control in Georgia - 1997

List of the 20 Most Damaging Insect Species or Complexes in Georgia in 1997 (+ or - after total indicates change from 1996 losses).
Rank	Insect	Control	Damage	Total Losses
1	Scale & mealybugs¹	$45,919,000	$55,855,000	$101,774,000 +
2	Subterranean termites²	66,337,000	20,000,000	86,337,000 +
3	Mites³	27,557,000	34,613,000	62,170,000 +
4	Imported fire ants⁴	38,679,500	13,495,000	52,174,500 +
5	Heliocoverpa zea⁵	32,195,000	19,972,000	52,167,000 +
6	Tobacco budworm⁶	28,244,000	17,880,000	46,124,000 +
7	Flies⁷	32,792,500	9,063,000	41,855,500 -
8	Mole crickets⁸	13,714,000	23,534,000	37,248,000 +
9	Thrips⁹	25,843,000	9,771,000	35,614,000 +
10	Stink bugs & Plant bugs¹⁰	7,130,000	24,137,000	31,267,000 +
11	Aphids¹¹	11,423,000	16,976,000	28,399,000 +
12	Cockroaches²	21,710,000	5,000,000	26,710,000 +
13	Ants²	18,092,000	5,000,000	23,092,000 +
14	Mosquitoes¹²	17,226,150	0	17,226,150 +
15	Fall armyworm¹³	4,876,000	9,600,000	14,476,000 +
16	Whiteflies¹⁴	5,962,000	7,285,000	13,247,000 +
17	White grubs¹⁵	4,804,000	7,658,000	12,462,000 +
18	Darkling beetles¹⁶	1,779,000	8,821,000	10,600,000 +
19	Wireworms¹⁷	1,846,000	6,704,000	8,550,000 +
20	Fleas²	5,168,000	3,000,000	8,168,000 -
	*Total (Top 20)*	*$411,297,150*	*$298,364,000*	*$709,661,150*

Apple, ornamental, and peach.

Household and structural.

Apple, cotton, livestock & poultry, ornamentals, and pecans.

Fire ant.

Cotton, field corn, grain sorghum, peanut, soybean, and vegetable.

Cotton and tobacco.

Public health and recreational areas and poultry & livestock.

Lawn and turf, pasture and forage, and tobacco.

Cotton, ornamental, peanut, tobacco, and vegetable.

Apple, cotton, field corn, grain sorghum, peach, pecan, small grain, soybean, and vegetable.

Apple, canola cotton, grapes, ornamental, pecan, small grain, tobacco, and vegetable.

Public health and recreational areas.

Cotton, corn, grain sorghum, and pasture.

Cotton, ornamental, and vegetable.

Lawn and turf, and pasture and forage.

Livestock and poultry.


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