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Insect Traps and Lures
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Description: also known as the Multicolored Asian lady beetle, Harlequin lady beetle (because of the species' tendency to vary in color from orange to yellow to even black), and Halloween lady beetle (because it invades homes in October in preparation for hibernation), is a well-known non-native insect common in both North America and Europe. |
| Cause Damage To: contaminating crops of tender fruits and grapes. Despite the troubles the Asian lady beetle causes, many farmers still view it as a beneficial insect. |
Gempler's Products:
• Insect and Mouse Glue Trap |
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Description: a species of lady beetle which is a notorious agricultural pest. It is one of the few lady beetles that feed on plants rather than other insects. It is found throughout Mexico and the eastern United States, and is abundant in the wetter and more heavily irrigated areas west of the Rocky Mountains. It does not tolerate extremely dry areas. |
| Cause Damage To: bean plants and other legumes. Adult beetles may eat the fruits and flowers of the plants, but generally prefer the leaves. |
Gempler's Products:
• Olson Yellow Sticky Traps --
3"x5" (Pkg. of 25)
• OLSON Sticky Traps --
Pkg. 50 6x12" Yellow Cards |
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Description: is one of the most well-known agricultural pest insects. It is also known as the asparagus fern caterpillar. This insect has been introduced worldwide and is now found
almost anywhere its many
host crops are grown. |
| Cause Damage To: asparagus, beans and peas, sugar and table beets, celery, cole crops, lettuce, potato, tomato, cotton, cereals, oilseeds, tobacco, many flowers, and a multitude of weed species. |
Gempler's Products:
• TRECE Beet Armyworm Lure
• Reusable Bucket Trap -
All Green - 4 Pieces |
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Description: very similar in appearance to a wasp. Distinguished from the wasp in that it is somewhat larger, growing to a length of ¾ to 1½ inches, is amber-colored in addition to black and yellow, and lacks a stinger. It is found throughout the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. |
| Cause Damage To: larvae feed on European Ash, lilac, privet and mountain ash. The larvae destroy the tree's phloem, cutting off the supply of nutrients to the roots, weakening and possibly killing the tree. |
Gempler's Products:
• Scentry Clearwing Borer
Group Lure
• TRECE 1C TRAP w/ Paper Top,
Hanger, Bottom & 2 Tubes
• TRECE 1C TRAP w/ Plastic Top,
Hanger, Bottom & 2 Tubes
• Trece 1C Wing Trap Liner
(bottom)
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Description: one of the most economically destructive insects of maize in the United States. Corn rootworm larvae can destroy significant percentages of corn if left untreated. |
| Cause Damage To: corn/maize. |
Gempler's Products:
• Trece Yellow Sticky Traps --
Unbaited AM |
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Description: A longitudinal, pitch-colored stripe runs along each side of the body and a wider, yellowish-gray stripe runs down the back. The head of a larva is often marked with a pale, but prominent, inverted Y. |
| Cause Damage To: Corn, sorghum, and other plants of the grass family are preferred hosts. But fall armyworm may also attack alfalfa, beans, peanut, potato, turnip, tomato, cabbage, cucumber, cotton, tobacco, and clover. |
Gempler's Products:
• TRECE Fall Armyworm Lure
• Reusable Bucket Trap -
All Green - 4 Pieces
• HERCON Vaportape II pkg.
of 1 strip |
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Description:adults are very small to moderate sized beetles, having the morphological characteristics of all leaf beetles, but having the hind femora (singular femur) greatly enlarged. Many flea beetles are attractively colored. |
| Cause Damage To: Many major agricultural crops are attacked by flea beetles, including various cruciferous plants such as mustard and rape (particularly canola in north western North America). Numerous garden plants are also subject to flea beetle feeding, such as flowers of Gardenia and Rothmannia by Altica spp. Other flea beetle species are beneficial, feeding on undesirable plants. |
Gempler's Products:
• Olson Yellow Sticky Traps --
3"x5" (Pkg. of 25)
• OLSON Sticky Traps -- Pkg. 50
6x12" Yellow Cards
• Trece Yellow Sticky Traps --
Unbaited AM
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Description: The outer two thirds of the forewings are bronze or copper in color while the upper third are yellowish-gray, with a dark band at the interface between the two. The wingspan is 16-20 mm. |
| Cause Damage To: larvae is a common grain-feeding pest found around the world, feeding on cereals and dry grain products |
Gempler's Products:
• Food and Pantry Moth Trap Kit |
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Description: Psylla's adults are long, around 2.5-3 mms, and of ochre or brownish color; the wings are transparent and positioned to sloping roof on the body. The larvae are flattened and of yellowish-orange color, that darken with time to a brown-blackish color. |
| Cause Damage To: develops only on pear. |
Gempler's Products:
• Trece Yellow Sticky Traps --
Unbaited AM |
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Description: The adult casebearer is a gray to almost black moth about 1/3 inch long. Each female lays 50-150 eggs during her 5-8 day life. Eggs are oval shaped, flat and very small (.36 X .65 mm), just large enough to be seen with the unaided eye. Eggs are greenish white or white when first laid. Casebearer larvae are olive-gray to jade green in color and reach a length of about 1/2 inch in length. |
| Cause Damage To: Casebearer larvae tunnel into pecan nutlets shortly after pollination, often destroying all of the nutlets in a cluster. |
Gempler's Products:
• TRECE Pecan Nut
Casebearer Lure
• TRECE 1CP TRAP w/plastic top,
hanger, and bottom
• TRECE 1CP WING TRAP LINER
(bottom)
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Description: The adult casebearer is a gray to almost black moth about 1/3 inch long. Each female lays 50-150 eggs during her 5-8 day life. Eggs are oval shaped, flat and very small (.36 X .65 mm), just large enough to be seen with the unaided eye. Eggs are greenish white or white when first laid. Casebearer larvae are olive-gray to jade green in color and reach a length of about 1/2 inch in length. |
| Cause Damage To: Casebearer larvae tunnel into pecan nutlets shortly after pollination, often destroying all of the nutlets in a cluster. |
Gempler's Products:
• TRECE Pink Bollworm Lure
• TRECE Pherocon II TRAP w/
one TRECE wire tie |
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Description: Shore flies are tiny flies that can be found near seashores or at smaller inland waters, such as ponds. |
| Cause Damage To: The damage caused by shore flies consists primarily in the excrement ("fly specks") left on the foliage of bedding plants and other ornamentals. |
Gempler's Products:
• Sticky Tape Roll -- 2"x530'
• Tape Dispenser |
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Description: Tent caterpillars are readily recognized because they are social, colorful, diurnal and build conspicuous silk tents in the branches of host trees. |
| Cause Damage To: commonly found on wild cherry, apple, and crabapple, but may be found on hawthorn, maple, cherry, peach, pear and plum as well. |
Gempler's Products:
• Tanglefoot Tree Wrap Kit (50 ft.)
• Tanglefoot Tree Wrap Kit (150 ft.) |
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Description: Budworm moths are about 0.75 inch (19 mm) long, with a wing span of 1 to 1.5 inches (25–37 mm). Eggs are spherical, flattened, with 10 to 15 perpendicular rows of toothed ribs. Newly hatched larvae have several rows of dark tubercles along the back, each bearing one or two bristles. |
| Cause Damage To: alfalfa, clover, cotton, flax, soybean, and tobacco. However, it sometimes attacks such vegetables as cabbage, cantaloupe, lettuce, pea, pepper, pigeon pea, squash, and tomato, especially when cotton or other favored crops are abundant. |
Gempler's Products:
• Scentry Heliothis Trap
• SCENTRY Replacement Top
for HELIOTHIS TRAP
• HERCON Vaportape II pkg.
of 1 strip
• Trece Tobacco Budworm Lure |
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Description: about the size of a housefly and very colorful. It has a yellow spot just below the areas where the wings are attached and iridescent, greenish eyes. The wings have three prominent dark bands, one of which extends around the wing to form a V-shape. The banded wings distinguish it from other flies found in the walnut orchard. Larvae feed in groups within the husk and are not seen unless the skin of the damaged husk is removed. Dark, soft blotches on maturing husks are a good clue to husk fly presence. |
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Cause Damage To: The primary damage from the husk fly is staining of the nutshell, which is a problem in commercial orchards where nuts are grown for in-shell sale, but can be tolerated in backyard situations. Feeding by the husk fly maggots also causes the damaged husks to stick to the shell, making them difficult to remove. An early-season husk fly infestation (June to mid-August) may result in shriveled, moldy kernels.
UC IPM Online
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Gempler's Products:
• Trece Yellow Sticky Traps --
Unbaited AM |
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Description: Most of these are black-and-yellow; some are black-and-white, while others may have the abdomen background color red instead of black. They can be identified by their distinctive markings, small size, their occurrence only in colonies, and a characteristic, rapid, side to side flight pattern prior to landing. They are often mistakenly called "bees". |
Cause Damage To: considered quite beneficial to agriculture since they feed abundantly on harmful flies and caterpillars, it is their boldness (sometimes aggressiveness) and painful stinging ability that cause most concern.
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2075.html |
Gempler's Products:
• Yellow Jacket/Fruit Fly DOME
TRAP with BAIT
• Replacement Bait for Yellow
Jacket/Fruit Fly Trap |
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