Invertebrate pest image gallery

Blue green aphid and Pea aphid

Green peach aphid

Adult aphid parasitoid, Diaeretiella rapae (photo: T. Heddle)

Aphid mummies (photo: K. Perry)

Armyworm head showing 3 white stripes on cervical shield (neck; photo: R. Hamdorf)

Armyworm on barley (photo: R. Hamdorf)

Balaustium adult

Balaustium mite feeding on lucerne

Black field cricket nymphs (left,) adult male (right) and adult female (far right)

Blue oat mite (photo: C. Svilans)

Bronzed field beetles (photo: K. Perry)

Brown pasture looper (photo: A. Hancock)

Brown pasture looper showing one pair of abdominal prolegs (Photo: R. Hamdorf)

Native budworm on barley, Cleve.

Cabbage aphid on Hyola canola, Kangaroo Island, 2015. Photo: Jenny Stanton

Cabbage aphid on canola (photo: D. Pratt)

Female caper white butterfly and eggs on caper bush.

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

Many corn aphids using a barley tiller with clear RWA symptoms, only one green RWA visible (Photo: N. Zweck)

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 caterpillars

Adult diamondback moth (photo: K. Perry)

Earwig damage to canola

Crop damage - Surface grazing of lupin seedlings

Crop damage - Earwig in Wheathead

Crop damage - Earwig in Wheathead

Adult Etiella moth

Turnip yellows virus damage to canola seedlings (photo: J. Davidson)

Beet Western Yellows Virus damage to canola crop Photo: Jenny Davidson, SARDI

Beet Western Yellows Virus damage to canola Photo: Mick Faulkner

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

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

Hover fly larvae feeding on aphids

Green lacewing adult

Adult ladybird (photo: F. Al-Jawahiri)

Ladybird larvae eating a Russian wheat aphid (photo: F. Al-Jawahiri)

Leafhopper on canola seedling

Lucerne flea adult

Lucerne flea adult

Lucerne flea on medic leaf

Lucerne flea damage to clover

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

Larva, Milang, August 2013

Pasture day moth larvae, 2015. Photo: Chris Davies

Adult moth

Larva

Larvae tunnel openings

Larvae and tunnel

Larvae

Polyphrades weevil from SARDI insect collection

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 mites (photo: C. Svilans)

Red legged earth mite feeding aggregation (photo: K. Perry)

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

Large RWA population (photo: B. Wake)

Russian wheat aphids and symptoms (photo: M. Nash).

Russian wheat aphid (photo: L. Wilkins)

Ryegrass mealybugs on lentils (Photo: Z. Zweck)

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

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 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

Bait line in furrow with dead slugs (K. Perry)

Black-keeled slugs (photo: K. Perry)

Figure 2: Conical snails feeding on snail bait on southern Yorke Peninsula (photo: K Perry).

Juvenile common white snail on cabbage (photo: R. Hamdorf)

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

Southern false wireworm adult (photo: A Hancock)

Southern false wireworm larvae (photo: T. Maitland)

Infestation on flowering tip

Note fine waxy appearance

Larvae

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 larvae