Invertebrate pest image gallery
Aphids
These diagrams will help you identify bluegreen aphids, pea aphids, and green peach aphids in Southern Australia.
Blue green aphid and Pea aphid
Green peach aphid
Aphid mummies and parasitoids
Adult aphid parasitoid, Diaeretiella rapae (photo: T. Heddle)
Aphid mummies (photo: K. Perry)
Armyworm
Fall armyworm showing distinctive characteristics on the head capsule – photo: Russ Ottens, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org (modified by The Beatsheet)
Armyworm head showing 3 white stripes on cervical shield (neck) (photo: R. Hamdorf)
Armyworm on barley (photo: R. Hamdorf)
Balaustium mite
Balaustium medicagoense
Balaustium adult
Balaustium sp feeding on Lucerne
Black field cricket
Teleogryllus commodus
Black field cricket nymphs (left,) adult male (right) and adult female (far right)
Blue oat mite (BOM)
Blue Oat Mite (Photo: C. Svilans)
Bronzed field beetle
Bronzed field beetles (Photo: K. Perry)
Brown pasture looper
Brown pasture looper (photo: A. Hancock)
Brown pasture looper showing one pair of abdominal prolegs (Photo: R. Hamdorf)
Bryobia mite
Bryobia praetiosa
Bryobia mite (Photo: S. Richmond)
Bryobia mite damage on lentils (Photo: M. Whitney)
Budworm
Native budworm on barley, Cleve.
Lesser budworm caterpillar (Photo: R. Hamdorf)
Cabbage aphid
Brevicoryne brassicae
Cabbage aphid colony on canola (Chris Butler)
Canola aphids with bronze-coloured 'aphid mummies'
Cabbage aphid on Hyola canola, Kangaroo Island, 2015. Photo: Jenny Stanton
Cabbage aphid on canola, Lower North, 2015. Photo: David Pratt
Caper white butterfly
Female caper white butterfly and eggs on caper bush.
Common cutworm
Agrotis infusa
Larvae cutworm
Cutworm on wheat, Mt Cooper, EP, 2015. Photo: Josh Hollitt
Larvae damaging cereal crops on Western Eyre Peninsula
Cutworm damage to wheat, Mt Cooper, EP, 2015. Photo: Josh Hollitt
Female moth
Male moth
Corn aphid
Corn aphids (Source: Nigel Myers)
Many corn aphids using a barley tiller with clear RWA symptoms, only one green RWA visible (Photo: N. Zweck)
Cowpea aphid
Aphis craccivora
Cowpea aphids: non-winged adult, nymphs and cast skins
Winged Cowpea aphid adult
Cowpea aphid on volunteer vetch
Cowpea aphid on lentils
Cowpea aphid infestation on field bean tip
Cowpea aphids on Faba beans
Diamondback moth (DBM)
Lincoln weed provides a summer refuge for diamondback moth and snails (image: K. Perry)
Diamondback moth caterpillars
Adult diamondback moth (Photo: K. Perry)
Earwigs
Forficula auricularia
European earwig juvenile (image: K.Perry)
Earwig damage to canola
Crop damage - Surface grazing of lupin seedlings
Crop damage - Earwig in Wheathead
Crop damage - Earwig in Wheathead
Etiella
Adult Etiella moth (source: SARDI)
Green peach aphid and beet western yellows virus
Beet Western Yellow Virus (BWYV) symptoms and damage to canola crops in the Mid North of South Australia, July 2014
Beet Western Yellows Virus damage to canola seedlings Photo: Jenny Davidson, SARDI
Beet Western Yellows Virus damage to canola crop Photo: Jenny Davidson, SARDI
Beet Western Yellows Virus damage to canola Photo: Mick Faulkner
Grass anthelid
Pterolocera spp.
Wheat, Butler Tanks, 2013
Grass anthelid damage moving off fenceline, Penong, 2015 Photo: Andy Bates
Wheat, Peterborough, 2011
Grass anthelid damage, Penong, 2015 Photo: Andy Bates
Wheat, Minnipa, 2013
Grass anthelid density as they move into paddock, and trimmed plants, Penong, 2015 Photo: Andy Bates
Grass anthelid, Penong, 2015 Photo: Andy Bates
Green peach aphid
Myzus persicae
Winged adult of green peach aphid
Non-winged adults and nymphs
Crop damage - Feeding damage to canola crop near Murdinga, Eyre Peninsula, 2013
Crop damage - Feeding damage to canola crop near Murdinga, Eyre Peninsula, 2013
Hoverfly
Hover fly larvae feeding on aphids
Hover fly on the wing in canola
Lacewings
Green lacewing adult
Lady beetle
Adult ladybird (photo: F. Al-Jawahiri)
Ladybird larvae eating a Russian wheat aphid (photo: F. Al-Jawahiri)
Leafhoppers (jassids)
Leafhopper on canola seedling
Lucerne flea
Sminthurus viridis
Lucerne flea adult
Lucerne flea adult
Lucerne flea on medic leaf
Lucerne flea caught in 10 sweeps on wheat. (Source: C. Fogarty, Kerin Agencies Landmark)
Lucerne flea damage to clover
Mandalotus weevils
Mandalotus spp.
Adult weevil on cereal seedling
Adult sheltering under volunteer grass
Adult weevil associated with a weed
Adult at the base of a cereal seedling (note the camouflage with the soil)
Adult Mandalotus weevil (Photo: K Perry)
Crop damage - Mandalotus damage, 2014. Photo: Craig Bell
Crop damage - Bare patches in a young canola crop
Crop damage - Ringbarking damage by adults
Crop damage - Weevils at the base of a ringbarked canola seedling
Crop damage - Weevils consuming a lentil seedling
Pasture day moth
Apina callisto
Larva, Milang, August 2013
Pasture day moth larvae, 2015. Photo: Chris Davies
Adult moth
Pasture tunnel moth
Philobota productella
Larva
Larvae tunnel openings
Larvae and tunnel
Larvae
Pasture webworm
Pasture webworm larvae (Photo: R. Hamdorf)
Polyphrades weevil
Polyphrades laetus
Polyphrades weevil from SARDI insect collection
Portuguese millipede
Ommatoiulus moreletii
Black Portuguese millipedes (Photo: K. Perry)
Black Portuguese millipede
Millipede damage to a cereal seedling
Damage to canola seedling
Black Portuguese millipede on lupin seedling, Fleurieu Peninsula, 2015. Photo: Ryan Bateman
Juvenile black Portuguese millipedes on wheat heads, Milang, 2015. Photos: Ryan Bateman
Black Portuguese millipede damage to lupins, Fleurieu Peninsula, 2015. Photo: Ryan Bateman
Juvenile black Portuguese millipedes on wheat head, Milang, 2015. Photos: Ryan Bateman
Redlegged earth mite (RLEM)
Halotydeus destructor
Redlegged earth mite (Photo: N. Hamdorf)
Redlegged earth mites (Photo: C. Svilans, using a GoMicro Field Scope)
Red legged earth mite damage (Photo: K. Perry)
Red legged earth mite feeding aggregation (Photo: K. Perry)
Redlegged earth mite adult
RLEM adults on seedling
Female RLEM with over-summering eggs (photo: M. van Helden)
Anystis wallacei, a biocontrol agent for RLEM
Anystis wallacei (right) feeding on RLEM
Crop damage - RLEM damage to Nabon bean
Crop damage - Close-up view of mites and damage
Crop damage- RLEM damage: poor germination and growth of Peas
Russian wheat aphid (RWA)
Large RWA population (photo: B. Wake)
Russian wheat aphids and symptoms (photo: M. Nash).
Russian wheat aphid (photo: L. Wilkins)
Russian wheat aphid (Photo: F. Al-Jawahiri, using GoMicro Field Scope)
Russian wheat aphid
Ryegrass mealybug
Ryegrass mealybugs on lentils (Photo: Z. Zweck)
Sawfly
Family: Pergidae
Sawfly larvae in wheat crop, Lock, EP, 2015. Photo: Chris Pearce
Sawfly larvae in wheat crop, Lock, EP, 2015. Photo: Chris Pearce
Sawfly larvae in wheat crop, Lock, EP, 2015. Photo: Chris Pearce
Serpetine leafminer
Serpentine leafminer (Merle Shepard, Gerald R.Carner & P.A.C Ooi/Insects and their Natural Enemies Associated with Vegetables and Soybean in Southeast Asia/Bugwood.org - CC BY 3.0 US)
Serpentine leafminer mines (Merle Shepard, Gerald R.Carner & P.A.C Ooi/Insects and their Natural Enemies Associated with Vegetables and Soybean in Southeast Asia/Bugwood.org - CC BY 3.0 US)
Slaters
Crustacea: Isopoda
Slaters (Photo: K. Perry)
Slater
Slaters from Warooka suspected damaging lentils
Slaters from Warooka suspected damaging lentils
Damage to lentil seedlings
Pill bug slater damage to lentil seedlings, Redhill, Mid North, 2015. Photo: Chris Fogarty
Pill bug slaters, Redhill, Mid North, 2015. Photo: Chris Fogarty
Slugs
Bait line in furrow with dead slugs (K. Perry)
Grey field slug (Photo: K. Perry)
Canola crop losses due to black-keeled slugs
Slug eggs on the soil surface (Photo: K. Perry)
Black-keeled slugs (Photo: K. Perry)
Snails in agriculture
Conical snails mating. (Photo: K. Perry).
Figure 2: Conical snails feeding on snail bait on southern Yorke Peninsula (photo: K Perry).
Vineyard snail consuming bait pellet. (Photo: H. Brodie).
Snails dying after consuming bait (image: Helen Brodie)
Juvenile common white snail on cabbage (photo: R. Hamdorf)
The common white snail, Cernuella virgata
Snail slime tracks indicating recent movement (image: Helen Brodie)
The white Italian snail, Theba pisana
The small pointed snail, Preitocella barbara
The conical snail, Cochlicella acuta
Snail damage to canola (Photo: M. Nash)
Crop damage/Baiting - Common white snail damaging Beans
Crop damage/Baiting - Common white snail on weed
Crop damage/Baiting - Italian snail damaging barley
Snails aestivating on roadside weeds (photo: R. Hamdorf)
White snail on fence post
Crop damage/Baiting - Snail baiting along fence line before summer rain
Snail parasitoid fly
S. villeneuveana on snail, and a parasitised snail with fly pupal case visible inside the shell opening. (Photos: K. Muirhead).
Sarcophaga villeneuveana feeding on flowers. (Photo: K. Perry).
Southern false wireworm
Southern false wireworm adult (Photo: A Hancock)
Southern false wireworm larvae (Photo: T Maitland)
True wireworm
True wireworm larvae, showing flattened head and rear dorsal plate
Turnip aphid
Lipaphis erysimi
Infestation on flowering tip
Note fine waxy appearance
White tailed black cutworm
Proteuxoa atrisquamata
Larvae attacking cereal crops on Central and Western Eyre Peninsula, July 2013
Adult moth
Proteuxoa spp., SA Mallee, 2015. Photo: Jeff Braun
Proteuxoa spp. Larva head, EP, 2015. Photo: Amy Murray
Proteuxoa spp. larva, EP, 2015. Photo: Amy Murray
Vegetable weevil
Vegetable weevil larvae
Page last reviewed: 22 Nov 2023
