IPM Insights into What Katydid

Aug 14, 2020

The UC IPM Citrus Pest Management Guidelines has been updated to include new research out of the Rosenheim lab at UC Davis. Early-season pests like citrus thrips, earwigs, and katydids damage some types of mandarins differently. Learn how to adjust your management program accordingly. Many new photos have been added to these sections to improve pest identification and show more damage symptoms.

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Scarring on the stylar end of citrus fruit caused by citrus thrips, Scirtothrips citri, feeding. Photo credit: Tobias G. Mueller

citrus trhips scarring to mandarin

 

Adult male European earwig, Forficula auricularia. Photo credit: Beth Grafton-Cardwell.

earwig duff

 Scar on citrus fruit caused by European earwig, Forficula auricularia, feeding. Photo credit:Hanna Kahl.

earwig damage to mandarin

 


By Ben Faber
Author - Advisor