Vegetable & Fruit Pest and Beneficial Insect Profiles

Insect Pests

Aphids, cabbage
Asparagus Beetle
Aster Leafhopper
Bean Leaf Beetle
Cabbage Looper
Cabbage Maggot
Colorado Potato Beetle
Common Stalk Borer
Corn Earworm - Sweet Corn
Corn Earworm - Snap Bean
Corn Rootworm
Diamondback Moth
European Corn Borer
Flea Beetles
Four Lined Plant Bug
Grape Flea Beetle
Imported Cabbageworm
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
Potato Leafhopper
Red Turnip Beetle
Seed Corn Maggot
Spotted Wing Drosophila
Springtails
Squash Bug
Squash Vine Borer
Striped Cucumber Beetle
Tomato Hornworm
Western Bean Cutworm

Lady Beetles & Beneficial Insects

Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
Green Lacewing
Compsilura concinnata
Diadegma insulare
Lady Beetle Identification Key
Cornell Biological Control Guide

Plant Diseases

U of MN Extension Service Fact Sheet Database (Search)
U of MN Plant Disease Clinic
Diseases of Cole Crops

Please note: Pest Fact Sheet Recommendations are most applicable to the Midwest, USA.
Refer to the following sites for more specific IPM information in other regions:

Southeastern, USA (North Carolina State University)
California, USA (UC-Davis, CA-IPM program)
Pacific Northwest, USA (Oregon State University)
World-Wide Directory for Vegetable Crops(CICP)

Note: Pest and beneficial fact sheets continue to be developed and revised; new fact sheets are added each year. Each of the following fact sheets have been carefully selected to provide relevant crop and pest managment information for vegetable production in the Midwestern U.S. Where managment implications are tailored to field crops (e.g. field corn), this is noted in the title and should be viewed accordingly.