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Southeastern Apple ProductionENTOMOLOGY |
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Insidious Plant Bug
Orius insidiosus (Say)
Description
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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Life History
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.
Predation
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 Center 455 Research Drive Mills River, NC 28759 Phone: 828.684.3562 ~ Fax: 828.684.8715 Email: jim_walgenbach@ncsu.edu |
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Updated March 9, 2007