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Key to Icons: Can be residents in Australian cotton fields - No or little known damage or effect as a beneficial These arthropods have beneficial effects in the crop - generally prey on or displace pest species These arthropods have been known to damage or are associated with damage in cotton. NB some of these species act to suppress other pest species These exotic pests are not present in Australia but are a threat if introduced Mobile friendly list
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SUSTAINABLE COTTON LANDSCAPES
Aphids Bean root aphid Cotton Aphid Cowpea aphid Green peach aphid Melon aphid (Exotic)
Bugs/Mirids in cotton (pest species) Apple dimpling bugs Brown mirid Brown shield bug Brown bean bug Brokenbacked Bug Cottonseed bug Cotton harlequin bug Cotton stainers Green mirids Green vegetable bug Green stink bug Jassids Leafhoppers Plant hopper Redbanded shield bug Rutherglen bugs Tarnished plant bug (Exotic)
Beetles Flea Beetles Flower beetles Pumpkin Beetle Redshouldered leaf beetle True and False Wireworm Caterpillars and Moths Cluster caterpillar Cotton Looper Cotton Tipworm Cotton Leafperforator Cutworms Helicoverpa Lesser Armyworm Pink Bollworms Rough Bollworms Tortrix (apple moth) Yellow peach moth
Crickets and Locusts Black field cricket Locusts Mealybugs Solenopsis Mealybug Long Tailed Mealybug Lantana Mealybug Native Mealybug Springtails Mites Spider Mites Two spotted mite Bean Spider Mite Strawberry Spider Mite Spider Mites (Exotic) Other mites
Symphyla Thrips Weevil Native weevils Cotton boll weevil (Exotic) Whiteflies Eastern Australian Native Bemisia Greenhouse Whitefly Silverleaf Whitefly