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Dr. Jonathan Crane inspects an avocado tree at the Tropical Research and Education Center

Hábitos Alimenticios de la Plaga


Nombre ComúnNombre CientíficoHábitosImagen
Chinche de Encaje del Aguacate Pseudacysta perseae  Insectos chupadores  An adult avocado lace bug, a pest of avocado. 
Ácaro de los brotes del aguacate  Tegolophus perseaflorae  Insectos chupadores
Ácaros 
Damage to a leaf. 
Diaprepes, gorgojo de la raíz  Diaprepes abbreviatus  Insectos masticadores  An adult Diaprepes. 
Escarabajos Ambrosiales  Xylosandrus crassiusculus
Xyleborus volvulus
Thoeborus solitaricaps
Xyleborus glabratus
 
Barrenadores Ambrosia beetle: Thoeborus solitaricaps. 
Medidores, orugas del aguacate  Epimeces detexta
Oxydia vesulia
Anacamptodes sp.
 
Insectos masticadores Larva of caterpillars, Oxydia vesulia. 
Trips del Aguacate 

Flower thrips
Frankliniella kelliae
Frankliniella bispinosa


Red banded thrips
Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
 

Insectos chupadores  An insect. 
Miridos del aguacate  Daghbertus fasciatus
D. olivaceous
 
Insectos chupadores  Mirid: Dagbertus fasciatus 
Escamas del aguacate  Coconut scale (Aspidiotus destructor)
Florida red scale (Chrysomphalus aonidum)
Coccus sp.
 
Insectos chupadores Scales on an avocado. 
Gorgojo Azul-Verde  Pachnaeus litus  Insectos masticadores  An adult blue green weevil, a pest of avocado. 
Arañita Roja o ácaro rojo del Aguacate  Oligonychus yothersi  Insectos chupadores
Ácaros
Red mite, a pest of avocado. 
Ácaro de Persea Oligonychus perseae  Insectos chupadores
Ácaros
Persea mite, a pest of avocado. 

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