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Insects

Insects

  • Natural Enemies Poster
    Natural Enemies, Natural Pest Control Poster

    Boost your garden’s natural defenses with this informative Natural Enemies, Natural Pest Control poster!

    Featuring vibrant illustrations and key insights, this poster highlights the vital role of beneficial insects—like parasitoid wasps, syrphid flies, lacewings, and lady beetles—in controlling pests naturally. Learn how to attract these natural allies with simple gardening strategies, such as planting diverse flowering plants and reducing pesticide use.

    Perfect for classrooms, gardening enthusiasts, and Extension educators, this poster is an essential tool for promoting eco-friendly pest management.

    Price: $5.00
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  • Occasional Invaders
    Occasional Invaders
    Illuminate your space with a captivating poster showcasing 14 yard- and home-invading creatures in vivid detail. Each creature is brought to life through large, colorful photos, allowing for easy identification. From slugs to centipedes, this visually striking poster adds an informative and decorative touch to your surroundings.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Olive Pests of Concern for Florida
    Olive Pests of Concern for Florida
    This stunning 12" x 18" full-color poster showcases a detailed visual overview of olive pests of concern in Florida. The high-quality images on the poster are accompanied by names and descriptions of each pest, providing valuable information on the specific areas they target on olive plants. Ideal for educators, growers, and anyone interested in olive cultivation, this poster serves as an informative and visually appealing resource for pest identification and awareness.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Our Love of Bees
    Our Love Of Bees
    Introduce the enchanting world of bees into your home with this delightful gift book. Renowned entomologist Jaret C. Daniels brings you a captivating array of spectacular images and expert insights, providing a close look at the lives of these vital and beautiful insects. A perfect gift for nature enthusiasts, this collection offers not only stunning photographs but also fascinating natural history information, making it a cherished addition to any appreciation of the wonders of the natural world.

    From Adventure Publications

    56 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59193-903-0.

    Price: $9.95
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  • Pest Ants
    Pest Ants
    Large, detailed photos showcasing 10 distinct pest ant species, including three with both major and minor worker illustrations, are thoughtfully organized by habitat on this full-color, 12" x 18" poster. The close-ups, actual-size indicators, and accompanying descriptive text provide a comprehensive visual guide to aid in ant identification.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Pests in and around the Southern Home
    Pests in and around the Southern Home

    This handy, fully illustrated guide gives you a colorful, comprehensive look at insects and other pests that may creep, crawl, or fly in and around your southern home. Complete habitat and life cycle information guide you through the habits of insects and other pests that inhabit the southeastern U.S.

    Includes sections on:

    • Biting and bloodsucking arthropods
    • Stinging and venomous arthropods
    • Pests around food
    • Pests of fabric and wood
    • Occasional invaders
    • Turfgrass pests
    • Pests of landscape and ornamental plants
    • Vertebrate pests

    331 pp.

    This book is a new edition of Pests in and around the Florida Home (SP 134), revised and expanded to encompass the southeastern U.S.

    Price: $30.00
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  • Pests that Suck Your Blood and Try to Kill You
    Pests that Suck Your Blood and Try to Kill You

    Encountering pests like fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, and flies is unavoidable in the southeastern United States. This guide empowers you to identify these stinging and biting insects on sight. Learn about their habits and habitats to safeguard yourself and your family. Printed on durable cardstock with a convenient coil binding, this resource is your companion in the fields, woods, or wherever these pesky insects thrive. 25 pages.

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  • Plant Galls and Gall-Makers Poster
    Plant Galls and Gall-Makers Poster
    Beautiful, detailed photographs showcasing 14 distinct plant galls and their creators: gall wasp, gall midge, and gall mite. Explore the diverse array of gall forms found on landscape ornamentals, including roly-poly, blister, pouch, and various other galls. This full-color, 12" x 18" poster is an informative visual guide to the fascinating world of plant galls.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Pollinator Power! Safari Kit
    Pollinator Power! Safari Kit

    Pollinators, the unsung heroes of our food supply, play a crucial role in our ecosystem. Understanding and supporting these vital creatures is essential for maintaining their populations. Introducing our all-in-one, reusable learning lab—designed by University of Florida experts for grades 5-8—packed with tools for hands-on exploration of pollinators and creating a vibrant pollinator garden at home or school.

    Kit includes:

    1 flash drive with Pollinator Power! A Lesson Plan for Grades 5-8 and printable resources
    3 bug jars
    1 butterfly net
    1 magnifier
    1 set insect rubbing plates
    1 set flower rubbing plates
    1 UF/IFAS Extension drawstring bag





    Price: $50.00
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  • Scary Insects and Creepy Crawlies Poster
    Scary Insects and Creepy Crawlies Poster
    Step into the realm of spine-chilling bug lore featuring a collection of frightful creatures. Discover fascinating facts, such as vampire moths that purportedly suck human blood, while realizing that most of these bugs are more eerie in appearance or name than in reality. Encounter creatures like the skeleton beetle, hickory horned devil, and nine other spine-tingling friends in vivid full-color detail. Sized at 12" x 18".
    Price: $5.00
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  • Simplified Key to the Termites of Florida: Soldier Caste
    Simplified Key to the Termites of Florida: Soldier Caste
    Featuring large, detailed photos, this poster clearly highlights the distinguishing characteristics among 16 species of termite soldiers. Our user-friendly key format follows a process of elimination, empowering you to confidently identify termites. Pair it with our Simplified Key to the Termites of Florida: Winged Reproductives, SP 414, for comprehensive termite identification. Sized at 18" x 12", this full-color poster is your perfect companion in understanding termite species.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Simplified Key to the Termites of Florida: Winged Reproductives
    Simplified Key to the Termites of Florida: Winged Reproductives
    Featuring large, detailed photos, this poster provides clear illustrations of the distinguishing characteristics among 16 species of termite wings. Its user-friendly key format guides you through a process of elimination, empowering you to identify termites with confidence. Sized at 18" x 12", this full-color poster is the perfect companion to the Simplified Key to the Termites of Florida: Soldier Caste, SP 413.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Stored Food Beetles
    Stored Food Beetles
    Enhance your knowledge of stored food beetles with this comprehensive poster. Featuring large, detailed photos of 15 beetles categorized by the type of food they infest, whether grains or vegetables, this full-color 12" x 18" poster provides valuable insights. Additionally, larvae photos, closeups, actual-size indicators, and descriptive text are included to offer a complete understanding of these pests and their impact on stored food.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees
    Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey bees

    Second Edition Revised and in Full Color!

    These 200+ pages are packed with vibrant full-color photographs, illustrations, detailed advice, and even some recipes. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced beekeeper, this book offers a comprehensive guide to the history of honey bee evolution and beekeeping, essential and recommended equipment, and techniques for managing a colony, including understanding population cycles and harvesting.

    Discover how to protect your colony from diseases and pests, write a pollination contract, and draft a model beekeeping ordinance for your community.

    Published by Storey Publishing. 2nd edition, 2018.
    By Malcolm T. Sanford and Richard E. Bonney

    Price: $24.95
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  • Bark Beetles
    The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles
    From University Press of Florida: 

    Famous foe of forestry professionals and despised spreader of Dutch elm disease, bark beetles have a bad reputation: the World's Worst Forest Pests. They chew through timber profits and kill healthy trees, turning forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. But entomologist Jiri Hulcr sees more to these evil weevils than meets the eye and offers you a closer look—literally. With science journalist Mark Abrahams, Hulcr offers a funny and informative introduction to these understudied and underappreciated insects. 

    This lively book turns cutting-edge research into an enjoyable tour through the miniature world of a charming critter. Vivid macrophotography captures every aspect of bark beetle life in stunning detail, from their dramatic family stories and curiously endearing looks to their mating strategies and the secret fungus farms where they cultivate their own "ambrosia." You'll learn how much we don't know about bark beetles—and what they mean for science's attempts to control them as climate change alters their habitats. Whether you're a scientist seeking up-to-date pest management strategies or wondering if your backyard trees are at risk, this book will help you better understand the latest discoveries in beetle symbioses, molecular biology, and ecology. But be warned: at the end of this read, you may be filled with affection for these adorable and astonishing beetles. 

     

    By Jiri Hulcr and Marc Abrahams, ISBN 978-1-68340-263-3 104 pp, 2022.


    Price: $26.95
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  • Tomato and Pepper Insects Identification Deck
    Tomato and Pepper Insects ID Deck
    Tomato and Pepper Insects is an identification deck designed to help you distinguish between the helpful and harmful insects you might encounter on your tomato and pepper plants. Color photographs provide the detail you need to determine whether you are observing a helpful or harmful organism. This differentiation will assist you in practicing integrated pest management (IPM), enabling you to manage harmful organisms while preserving the helpful ones.

    Some harmful insects covered include aphids, thrips, whiteflies, leafminers, mole crickets, pepper weevils, beet armyworms, hornworms, and tomato fruitworms. Some helpful insects include the brown lacewing, green lacewing, lady beetles, minute pirate bug, Larra wasp, and parasitic wasp.

    This ID deck serves as a companion to the Grower's IPM Guide for Florida Tomato and Pepper Production, available for free online at  http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu/resources/success_stories/T&PGuide/index.shtml

    Price: $12.00
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  • Turf Insect Pests
    Turf Insect Pests
    Vibrant photographs showcasing 12 distinct insects and a mite known for their harmful effects on grass, arranged based on their usual habitat within the landscape. Complete with size details, this full-color, 12" x 18" poster offers valuable insights into lawn pest identification and management.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Urban Pest and Wildlife Droppings
    Urban Pest and Wildlife Droppings
    Urban Pest and Wildlife Droppings provides visual references to identify droppings from 10 distinct creatures, helping you discern whether insects, domestic rodents, or urban wildlife have frequented your home or yard. This full-color, 12" x 18" poster features actual-size indicators alongside descriptive text for easy reference and recognition.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Vibrant Butterflies: Our Favorite Visitors to Flowers and Gardens
    Vibrant Butterflies: Our Favorite Visitors to Flowers and Gardens
    By Jaret C. Daniels
    From the publisher:
    Butterflies capture our imaginations. From the miraculous metamorphosis to their intricate wing patterns, these amazing insects inspire feelings of wonder and adoration. This book will delight you as it walks you through the world of butterflies, with expert insights and stunning photos.
    Inside you'll find:
    • One-of-a-kind images of butterflies from across North America, including non-native species common at living exhibits and butterfly gardens.
    • Fascinating facts, such as information on the Monarch's epic migration and butterfly-friendly plants.
    • A chart with the butterflies common to your region, as well as a chart of caterpillars and the butterflies they become.
    From Adventure Publications. ISBN 978-1-59193-789-0. 132 pp, 2018.
    Price: $14.95
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  • Wood-Destroying Insects
    Wood-Destroying Insects
    Increase your knowledge of wood-destructive insects with our comprehensive poster! Featuring large, detailed photos of nine common culprits including beetles, bees, ants, and termites, this visually engaging guide is an invaluable tool for identification. Complete with gallery, frass, and exit-hole images, along with actual-size indicators and descriptive text, this full-color 12" x 18" poster is essential for anyone concerned about wood damage.
    Price: $5.00
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