New Plant-Feeding Insect Manual

 

This manual, written by Ted D. Center, F. Allen Dray, Jr., Greg P. Jubinsky, and Michael J. Grodowitz identifies nearly 50 plant-feeding insects. Photo courtesy of the United States Department of Agriculture.

The United States Department of Agriculture is now offering a downloadable manual on its website that will aid in the identification of plant-feeding insects. Titled, Insects and Other Arthropods That Feed on Aquatic and Wetland Plants, the manual provides photographs and descriptions of the life stages and feeding damage of about 50 of the most common native plant-feeding insects and naturalized biological control insects found in aquatic and wetland ecosystems in the United States.

For more information, visit www.ars.usda.gov.