Southeastern Apple Production
ENTOMOLOGY
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Southeastern Apple ProductionENTOMOLOGY |
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O. insidiosus is the most common of several species of minute pirate bugs occuring in the Southeast. Adults are true bugs less than 1/4 inch long, with an orange, black, and white pattern on the wings. Immatures are yellow to red in their early instars but turn brown as they develop.
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Females lay between 100 to 150 eggs two to three days after mating. Eggs hatch after about 5 days, and nymphs develop into adults over a period of about two weeks. There are several generations per year.
Both adults and larvae feed on Green apple and spirea aphids, European red and spider mites, and leafhoppers.
Insect and Mite Management Overview
Insect and Mite Index
Southeastern Apple Production
Mountain
Horticultural Crops Research & Extension
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Updated March 9, 2007