Insects Feeding
on this Plant:
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Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut) [Hippocastanaceae]
(Observations are from Hamilton, Cranshaw, ScaleNet)
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Scarabaeidae: Popillia japonica (Japanese Beetle) [polyphagous] Crw2004
Homoptera (Sucking Insects)
Cercopidae: Clastoptera obtusa (Alder Spittlebug) [fed on by adults only] Hm1982; Diaspididae: Diaspidiotus ostreaeformis (False San Jose Scale) [found on bark, polyphagous; this insect is widely distributed in N USA & S Canada, also in Eurasia, where it is native] SN2014, Diaspidiotus perniciosus (San Jose Scale) [usually found on bark, polyphagous, although preferring woody species in the Rosaceae; this insect is widely distributed; syn. Comstockaspis perniciosa, syn. Quadraspidiotus perniciosus] SN2014, Lepidosaphes ulmi (Oystershell Scale) [found on bark, polyphagous; this insect is widely distributed in the USA, S Canada, & Eurasia] SN2014, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (White Peach Scale) [polyphagous; this insect is found mostly in E USA, it was introduced from Eurasia] SN2014