Common Vegetable Pests

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Insect Identification Laboratory
at Virginia Tech

Common Insect and Mite Pests of Vegetables

found in Virginia and Nearby Areas

Image List

All are black and white line drawings unless otherwise indicated.

  • Aphids

  • Asparagus Beetle, Common & Spotted

  • Asparagus Beetle, Spotted (photo)

  • Bean Aphid (photo)

  • Bean Leaf Beetle

  • Beet Flea Beetle

  • Beet Webworm

  • Blister Beetles

  • Brown Stink Bug

  • Cabbage Aphid

  • Cabbage Looper

  • Cabbage Webworm (Sorry, no image available at this time.)

  • Carrot Caterpillar (= Parsleyworm, Celeryworm)

  • Carrot Rust Fly (Sorry, no image available at this time.)

  • Celery Leaf Tier

  • Celeryworm (= Parsleyworm, Carrot caterpillar)

  • Colorado Potato Beetle

  • Corn Earworm (= Tomato fruitworm)

  • Corn Flea Beetle

  • Corn Sap Beetles (photo)

  • Cowpea Curculio

  • Cutworms

  • Diamondback Moth

  • Eggplant Lacebug

  • European Corn Borer

  • Fall Armyworm

  • Flea Beetles

  • Garden Symphylan

  • Grasshoppers

  • Green Apple Leafhopper

  • Green Stink Bug

  • Harlequin Bug

  • Hornworms

  • Imported Cabbageworm

  • Japanese Beetle

  • Leafhoppers

  • Leafminers

  • Lima Bean Pod Borer (Sorry, no image available at this time.)

  • Lygus Bugs

  • Mexican Bean Beetle

  • Mole Cricket

  • Oblique Striped Leafhopper

  • Onion Maggot

  • Onion Thrips

  • Orange Tortrix

  • Parsleyworm (= Carrot caterpillar, Celeryworm)

  • Pea Weevil

  • Pickleworm

  • Potato Tuberworm

  • Potato Leafhopper

  • Raspberry Crown Borer (photo)

  • Raspberry Fruitworm

  • Red Necked Cane Borer (photo)

  • Red Spotted Apple Leafhopper

  • Rhubarb Curculio (Sorry, no image available at this time.)

  • Root Maggots

  • Rose Chafer

  • Rose Scale (photo)

  • Seed Corn Maggot

  • Six Spotted Leafhopper (Sorry, no image available at this time.)

  • Southern Green Stink Bug

  • Spider Mite

  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle

  • Stalk Borer

  • Stink Bugs

  • Striped Blister Beetle

  • Striped Cucumber Beetle

  • Striped Flea Beetle

  • Squash Bug

  • Squash Vine Borer

  • Sweet Potato Weevil

  • Tarnished Plant Bug

  • Thrips

  • Tomato Fruitworm (= Corn earworm)

  • Tomato Russet Mite (Sorry, no image available at this time.)

  • Turnip Aphid

  • Two Spotted Spider Mites (photo)

  • Vegetable Weevil

  • White Apple Leafhopper

  • White Fringed Beetles

  • White Grubs

  • Wireworm

    Developed by Alexandra Spring & Eric R. Day (Manager), Insect Identification Laboratory, Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech

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