Hodges, Amanda C.
Biography
Extension scientist and director, Doctor of Plant Medicine program, UF/IFAS Department of Entomology and Nematology, Gainesville, FL
Publications
- “Push-pull” Technology and Companion Planting: A Dual Strategy for Insect Pest Management in High Tunnel Vegetable Production and Organic Systems
- Citrus Snow Scale Unaspis citri (Comstock) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)
- Bagrada Bug, Painted Bug, Bagrada Hilaris (Burmeister) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
- Striped Mealybug Ferrisia virgata Cockerell (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)
- Redbanded Stink Bug, Red-Banded Stink Bug, Smaller Green Stink Bug (suggested common names) Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
- Orange Spiny Whitefly, Aleurocanthus spiniferus (Quaintance) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
- Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica Newman (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
- Citrus Longhorned Beetle, Anoplophora chinensis (Forster) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
- Twobanded Japanese Weevil, Pseudocneorhinus bifasciatus Roelofs (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
- Viburnum Leaf Beetle Pyrrhalta viburni (Paykull) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- Dogwood Borer, Synanthedon scitula(Harris) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Sesiidae)
- Azalea Lace Bug, Stephanitis pyrioides (Scott) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Tingidae)
- Fuller Rose Beetle, Naupactus godmanni (Crotch) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
- Coconut Mealybug Nipaecoccus nipae (Maskell) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)
- Red Date Scale, Phoenicococcus marlatti (Cockerell) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Phoenicoccidae)
- Black Thread Scale, Ischnaspis longirostris (Signoret) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Diaspididae)
- Tessellated Scale, Ecualymnatus tessellatus (Signoret) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccidae)
- Hypogeococcus pungens Granara de Willink (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), a Mealybug
- Palmetto Scale Comstockiella sabalis Comstock
- Boisduval Scale, Diaspis boisduvalii Signoret (Insecta: Hemiptera: Diaspididae)
- Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
- Myakka Bug, Ischnodemus variegatus (Signoret) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Blissidae)
- A Tiphiid Wasp Myzinum maculata Fabricius (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Myzininae)
- Horned passalus, Odontotaenius disjunctus (Illiger) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Passalidae: Passalinae)
- European Pepper Moth or Southern European Marsh Pyralid Duponchelia fovealis (Zeller)
- Tropical Bont Tick Amblyomma variegatum Fabricius (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae)
- Bean Plataspid: Megacopta cribraria (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Plataspidae)
- The Florida Plant Diagnostic Network
- Ladybirds, Ladybird beetles, Lady Beetles, Ladybugs of Florida, Coleoptera: Coccinellidae
- Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle, Harmonia axyridis Pallas (Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
- Lobate Lac Scale, Paratachardina lobata lobata (Chamberlin) (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Kerriidae)
- The Pecan Bud Moth: Pest of Nursery Stock and Transplanted Pecans
- Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis (=coagulata) (Germar) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae)
- Sharpshooters, Leafhoppers, Cicadellidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae)
- Black Stink Bug Proxys punctulatus (Palisot) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
- Brown Stink Bug Euschistus servus (Say) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
- Cypress Twig Gall Midge, Taxodiomyia cupressiananassa (Osten Sacken) (Insecta: Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)
- Western Leaffooted Bug Leptoglossus zonatus (Dallas) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coreidae)
- Cottonwood Leaf Beetle Chrysomela scripta Fabricius (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomela)
Specialist/ssa/rsa - Current