Insects

• Hardwood Insects
  • Fall Webworm 
  • Twig Girdling Beetles 
  • Oak Gall Insects 
  • Leaf-Cutting Bees 
  • Giant Bark Aphids 
  • Katydids 
  • Elm Leaf Beetle 
  • Giant Walkingsticks 
  • Barklice 
  • Hickory Horned Devil 
  • Luna Moth 
• Invasive, non-native insects
  • Chalcid Wasp
  • Emerald Ash Borer
    • Informational Flyer in English
    • Informational Flyer in Spanish
  • Soapberry Borer
    • How to recognize Western Soapberry and Soapberry Borer (pdf)
    • Wanted: Location of Soapberry Borer Infestations in Texas (rtf)
• Miscellaneous Insects
  • Lovebugs 
• Other Pine Insect Pests
  • Blackheaded Pine Sawfly
  • Imperial Moth 
  • Leaf-Cutting Ant 
  • Pine Tip Moth
  • Pine Webworm 
  • Pine Regeneration Weevils 
  • Redheaded Pine Sawfly 
• Pine Engraver Beetles (Ips Beetles)
  • Evidence of beetle attacks 
  • Watch for beetle activity during prolonged drought 
  • Prevention and control of Pine Engraver Beetles 
  • Pine Engraver / Ips Bark Beetles 
  • What has killed my pine trees?
• Southern Pine Beetle (SPB)
  • Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Cost Share Program 
  • Southern Pine Beetle Control Methods
    • Salvage 
    • Cut-and-Leave 
  • Southern Pine Beetle South-wide Trend Predictions for 2009 (Arkansas, Louisiana, & Texas) (pdf)
  • Southern Pine Beetle South-wide Trend Predictions for 2009 (Texas) (pdf)
    • Southern Pine Beetle Predictions-Table 1 (pdf)
    • Summary of South-wide Southern Pine Beetle Trend Predictions for 2009-Table 2 (pdf)
  • What happened to the Southern Pine Beetle? 
  • Southern Pine Beetle Infestations Detected in East Texas -- 1958-2007 
  • Thinning young pine stands to minimize Southern Pine Beetle risk