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	Image Number K5400-1 This bee, Osmia ribifloris (on a barberry flower), is an effective pollinator of commercial blueberries and is one of several relatives of the blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria. Similar in appearance, the blue orchard bee is also a successful commercial pollinator that is now being evaluated for use in a wider range of crops. Photo by Jack Dykinga.
	Image Number K8451-1 This 1/4-inch-long crustacean, Hyalella azteca, is common in aquatic systems and is used by scientists as an indicator of environmental health and water quality in streams, lakes, and other bodies of water. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K2602-4 Aphthona flava flea beetle feeding on leafy spurge.
	Image Number K8575-22 Fire ants will do anything to resist attack by the tiny phorid fly measuring only about one-sixteenth of an inch. A highly specific natural enemy, the female pierces a fire ant's head and releases an enzyme that later decapitates it. Photo by Sanford Porter.
	Image Number K8172-4 A mustached mud bee, Anthophora abrupta. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8204-7 Formosan subterranean termites are feeding on Sudan-red-stained filter paper. Tracking the termites stained with this dye allows researchers to estimate their foraging range and population numbers. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8210-10 Damage to a nest of Formosan subterranean termites brings hoards of workers and soldiers with dark, oval shaped heads scrambling to repair the hole. Termites shown about 4 times actual size. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8200-9 Formosan termite alates, also known as swarmers, captured on a sticky trap used to monitor populations. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8111-2 Researchers are just beginning to evaluate the potential for native insect predators—including spiders such as this long-jawed orb weaver—to hold agricultural pests in check. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8002-3 Adult deer tick, Ixodes scapularis. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7865-1 The alfalfa plant bug, Adelphocoris lineolatus, is a non-native plant pest. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7873-3 Day-old sawfly larvae devour a melaleuca leaf in skirmish-line fashion. Photo by Jason Stanley.
	Image Number K5111-10 Varroa jacobsoni mite. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7659-1 Aleiodes indiscretus wasp parasitizing a gypsy moth caterpillar. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K5388-1 Widely disliked for their venomous, painful stings, fire ants have spread across much of the southern United States. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7576-1 Tusklike mandibles protruding from the screwworm larva's mouth rasp the flesh of living warm-blooded animals. A wound may contain hundreds of such larvae. Photo by John Kucharski.
	Image Number K5108-16 A female Catolaccus grandis wasp homes in on a boll weevil larva. This 3/8 inch parasitic wasp, a native of Mexico, inserts her ovipositor through the plastic film covering the individual rearing cell and immobilizes the larva. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K2742-6 Cotton Boll Weevil.
	Image Number K7500-1 Mexican fruit flies laying eggs in grapefruit before a test of the reduced-oxygen treatment. Photo by Jack Dykinga.
	Image Number K4249-1 Convergent lady beetles, Hippodamia convergens, are imported for study at the ARS Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Laboratory in Newark, Delaware. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K5806-17 Three-sixteenths-inch-long Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (14-spot) lady beetles look for aphids on a fava bean leaf. Scientists think the beetles might be helpful in controlling Russian wheat aphids that now infest 17 Great Plains and Western states. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K5557-9 Cross section of a tunnel with a corn earworm pupa. The Diapetimorpha introita wasp is preparing to lay an egg in the pupal tunnel. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K4813-20 Having glued a hapless whitefly to a leaf, the big-eyed bug can devour its prey at its leisure. Photo by Jack Dykinga.
	Image Number K4695-6 Costly crop pests like this cotton bollworm may soon encounter a new biological control-the celery looper virus-being tested by the Agricultural Research Service and a commercial laboratory. Photo by Scott Bauer.

	Image Number K4705-9 Aedes aegypti mosquito on human skin.
	Image Number K8898-2 Male medfly. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K9056-1 Formosan Subterranean soldier termites (darker heads and mandibles) and worker termites in test tubes. The white disks at the bottom of the tubes contain different insecticides to guage their tolerance level. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8897-1 The production of medflies can be realized in the laboratory by bathing medfly eggs in warm water—a process that kills the female embryos but doesn't harm the male embryos. In the pupal stage, the males can be irradiated to render them sexually sterile. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8843-2 Thrypticus fly (about 2 mm long). Photo by Christine Bennet.
	Image Number K7658-2 Oxyops vitiosa, a leaf weevil, is thriving on invasive melaleuca in southern Florida. Photo by Gary Buckingham.
	Image Number K8836-1 The leaf beetle Diorhabda elongata is the first approved biological control agent for saltcedar in the United States. Photo by Bob Richard, APHIS.
	Image Number K8536-1 Visible as a dark, oval shape, an adult female varroa mite feeds on the midsection of a developing worker bee. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8534-2 A family of varroa mites found at the bottom of a honey bee brood cell. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8488-1 A sixteenth-inch-long female biting midge, Culicoides sonorensis, feeds blood delivered through artificial membrane developed for mass insect rearing. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8404-20 A corn earworm moth sips nectar from a night-blooming Gaura plant. Photo by Juan Lopez.
	Image Number K3729-3 Diamondback moth larvae feed on a cabbage leaf. Photo by Doug Wilson.
	Image Number K8500-2 A tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, on clover. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7033-20 The Asian multicolored lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis, is easy to identify from its false "eyes"-- twin white football-shaped markings behind the head. In color, the insects range from black to mustard, with zero to many spots. A common U.S. form is mustard to red and has 16 or more black spots. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K0548-14 Corn earworm on an immature cotton boll. ARS PHOTO
	Image Number K7920-7 Biosteres arisanus wasps inject their eggs into oriental fruit fly eggs. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7013-3 Medfly feeding on a cotton wick soaked with a bait-dye mixture. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K4978-5 Colorado potato beetle. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7866-1 Tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, is a serious pest of alfalfa being grown for seed. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7867-1 A quarter-inch-long parasitic wasp, Peristenus digoneutis, prepares to lay an egg in a tarnished plant bug nymph. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K8143-1 Adult stage of the sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis. Photo by William White.
	Image Number K7873-11 A melaleuca sawfly adult prepares to deposit eggs on a melaleuca leaf. Photo by Jason Stanley.
	Image Number K7658-2 Melaleuca leaf weevils, Oxyops vitiosa, were released this year in the Florida Everglades as a biological control of melaleuca trees. Photo by Gary Buckingham
	Image Number K7791-1 A blue orchard bee pollinates a zinnia. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7765-1 Cucumber beetle. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7763-1 Squash bug. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K1289-17 The adult stage of the western corn rootworm (shown searching for pollen on corn silk) is the target of ARS' first areawide integrated pest management program for corn. Photo by Tom Hlavaty.
	Image Number K4193-13 About one-eighth-inch long, the female Hessian fly emits a sex pheromone from her ovipositor to attract males. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7010-9 This predatory beetle, Thanasimus formicarius, can eat about three pine shoot beetles daily for up to 3 months. The pine shoot beetle is a destructive pest of pine trees in about 150 U.S. counties. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K3980-17 Maize weevil.
	Image Number K4600-7 A one-sixteenth-inch long Silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia argentifolii. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7026-19 Medflies often share regurgitated food. This helps spread the insecticidal dye-and-bait blend phloxine B, better known as the FDA-approved red dye number 28, through the population. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K5860-1 Leaf-cutting ants, such as this foraging worker of Atta cephalotes, are the primary herbivores of tropical areas such as Central America. they can be serious agricultural pests. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7545-9 A green lacewing larva dines on whitefly nymphs. Photo by Jack Dykinga.
	Image Number K5812-17 A P-14 lady beetle devours a pea aphid. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7456-1 Adult citrus root weevil, Diaprepes. Photo by Keith Weller.
	Image Number K7022-6 A female medfly pumps eggs through her ovipositor into the soft outer layers of a ripe coffee berry. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K5504-7 Gypsy moth caterpillars are the number one forest and shade tree pest in the Northeast. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7500-5 In grapefruit as well as many other fruits, one female Mexican fruit fly can deposit large numbers of eggs: up to 40 eggs at a time, 100 or more a day, and about 2,000 over her life span. Photo by Jack Dykinga.
	Image Number K4186-11 The tarnished plant bug is reared in the lab as a factory for parasites. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K1461-3 A Mexican bean beetle larva-a devastating pest of snap and soybeans-becomes a meal for the spined soldier bug instead.
	Image Number K5397-14 Sweat bees: Small wild bees such as this one visiting a dandelion are often attracted by salty sweat on hot days. Photo by Scott Bauer.
	Image Number K7588-19 Sap beetle, Carpophilus lugubris. Photo by Keith Weller Click here: Scale Insects

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