Insect pests (plants, storage)

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Boll Weevil Monument, erected by the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama to honour the pest that ended their dependence on cotton, a poverty crop.
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Insect pests of plants, stored products, and in houses

The following orders and groups are included:

• Blattodea (cockroaches)
• Coleoptera (beetles)
• Collembola (spring-tails)
• Dermaptera (earwigs - plant pests)
• Diptera (flies)
• Hemiptera (bugs, hoppers)
• Hymenoptera (wasps)

• Isoptera (termites)
• Lepidoptera (moths)
• Orthoptera (locusts, grasshoppers)
• Psocoptera (booklice)
• Thysanoptera (thrips)
• Zygentoma (bristletails, firebrats)

Note:
This group includes insect plant pests only. For other groups in the system see:

• medical and veterinary insect pests
• parasitoids - Diptera
• parasitoids - Hymenoptera
• insect predators
• other groups of parasitoids and predators
• beneficial insects as bioagents of weeds