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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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INSECT PESTS AND MODE OF CONTROL

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Other Horticultural Crops

Vegetables. Main pests on cabbage and cauliflower are white butterfly, Pieris rapae (L.); diamond-back moth, Plutella maculipennis (Curt.); and cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae (L.). Beans are troubled by the black bean aphid, Aphis craccivora (Koch); green vegetable bug, Nezara viridula (L.); and the looping caterpillar, Plusia chalcites (Esp.). Carrots are attacked by rust fly, Psila rosae (F); vegetable weevil, Listroderes costirostris obliquus (Klug), and the aphid, Cavariella aegopodii (Scop.). Cucurbits may be damaged by Aphis gossypii (Glov.); green vegetable bug, Nezara viridula (L.); and springtails, Collembola. Thrips tabaci (Lind.) infests onions, and tomato pests include corn earworm, Heliothis armigera (Hb.); looper caterpillar, Plusia chalcites (Esp.), the stem borer, Gnorimoschema plaesiosoma (Turn.), and the green vegetable bug, Nezara viridula (L.)


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