Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 2 - Agriculture and Commerce › Part 1 - Rules of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce › Subpart 3 - Bureau of Plant Industry › Chapter 01 - Plant Diseases, Insects and Weeds › Regulated Pests of Quarantine Significance (List B) › Section 2-1-3-01-102

Current through June 25, 2024
Regulated pests of quarantine significance (List B):
						include pests requiring more restrictive actions to meet special requirements
						in order to prevent the introduction and spread of such pests into, out-of and
						within Mississippi. Such requirements may include quarantines, surveys, special
						restrictions on regulated articles, or other emergency actions for which
						special rules or quarantines may be officially adopted under the Mississippi
						Plant Act ("Act"). List B includes exotic species not yet detected in
						Mississippi posing an economic threat to the environment as well as
						horticultural and agricultural crops in Mississippi and includes additional
						pests on USDA/APHIS/PPQ's "Regulated Plant Pest List," as determined by the
						state entomologist to meet the purpose of the Act and the following:
1. Insects/Arthropods and the plants they are
					 likely to infest:
a. Africanized Honeybee,
Apis mellifera scutellata
Lepeletier. (See Mississippi Bee
					 Disease Act, Sections
					 69-25-101 through Section
					 69-25-109 and Regulations-Subpart
					 3 - Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 06;
b. Argentine Ant,
Iridomyrmex
					 humilis
(Mayr) (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry,
					 Chapter 01, Section 129);
c. Asian
					 Longhorned wood borer,
Anoplophora glabripennis
(Motschulsky);
d. Blueberry maggot,
Rhagoletis mendax
Curran - Blueberry;
e. Boll Weevil,
Anothonomus
					 grandis
(Boheman) - Cotton (See Mississippi Boll Weevil Management
					 Act, Sections
					 69-37-39 and Regulations- Subpart
					 03 -Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 13, Sections 100-114;
f. Brown-tail-moth,
Nygmia
					 phaeorrhoea
(Donovan) - Apple, apricot, ash, beech, cherry, elm,
					 grape, maple, oak, peach, pear, plum, quince, rose and many other trees and
					 plants;
g. Cactus Moth,
Cactoblastis cactorum
(Berg) - Species of cacti;
h. Cotton square weevil (Peruvian),
Anthonomus vestitus
Boheman - Cotton;
i. Emerald ash borer,
Agrilus
					 planipennis
(Fairmaire) - All species of ash trees;
j. European wood wasp,
Sirex
					 noctilio
(Fabricus) -
Pinus
spp;
k. Formosan termite,
Coptotermes
					 formasanus
(Shiraki) (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant
					 Industry, Chapter 01, Section 134);
l.
					  Spongy Moth,
Lymantria dispar
(Linnaeus) -
					 Apple, beech, cherry, elm, gum, hickory, maple, oak, pine, pear, willow, and
					 many other trees and plants;
m.
					 Imported fire ant,
Solenopsis saevissima v. richteri
(Forel),
					 Black Imported Fire ant,
Solenopsis richteri
(Forel) -
					 Meadows, pastures, potatoes, okra, and other plants. (See Regulations - Subpart
					 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 131);
n. Japanese beetle,
Popillia
					 japonica
(Newman) - Feeds on a large number of fruit, shade and timber
					 trees, small fruit, and ornamental plants, truck and field crops and
					 weeds;
o. Light Brown Apple Moth,
Epiphyas postvittana
(Walker) LBAM has been recorded from over
					 200 plants in 120 plant genera in 50 families. Some notable trees are apple,
					 pear, peach, apricot, nectarine, citrus, persimmon, cherry, almond, avocado,
					 oak, willow, walnut, poplar, cottonwood, coast redwood, pine, and eucalyptus.
					 Some common shrub and herbaceous hosts are grape, kiwifruit, strawberry,
					 berries (blackberry, blueberry, boysenberry, raspberry), corn, pepper, tomato,
					 pumpkin, beans, cabbage, carrot, alfalfa, rose, camellia, jasmine,
					 chrysanthemum, clover, and plantain;
p. Mediterranean fruit fly,
Ceratitis
					 capitata
(Wiedemann) - Apple, apricot, bean, citrus, eggplant, fig,
					 grape, Japanese persimmon, peach, red peppers, tomato and other
					 plants;
q. Mexican fruit fly,
Anastrepha ludens
(Loew) - Guava, mango, orange, peach, plum,
					 sapodilla, and sweet lime;
r. Pine
					 shoot beetle,
Tomicus piniperda
(Linnaeus) -
Pinus
sp.;
s. Pink
					 bollworm,
Pectinophora gossypiella
(Saunders) -
					 Cotton;
t. Pink hibiscus mealybug,
Maconellicoccus hirsutus
(Green) - Citrus, vegetables, beans,
					 cabbage, cucumber, pumpkin, tomato, various ornamental plants, avocado, fig,
					 mango, sugarcane, peanuts, forest trees;
u. Rice Mite/Rice Panicle Mite,
Steneotarsonemus spinki
(Smiley) - Rice,
Oryza
					 sativa
L., wild rice,
Oryza latifolia
(Desy), Weed:
Schoenoplectus articulatus,
family Cyperaceae;
v. Spotted Lanternfly,
Lycorma
					 delicatula
(White) - Soybean, grapes, stonefruits,
Malus
					 spp.
w. Swede
					 midge/cabbage midge,
Contarinia nasturti
(Keiffer) - Various
					 species of brassica;
x. Sweetpotato
					 weevil,
Cylas formicarium elegantulus
(Summers) - Sweet
					 potato, morning glory and bindweed (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of
					 Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 125);
y. Viburnum leaf beetle,
Pyrrhalta
					 viburni
(Paykull) - Viburnums;
z. West Indian sweet potato weevil,
Euscepes postfasciatus
(Fairmaire) - Sweet Potato;
aa. Wooly hemlock adelgid,
Adelges
					 tsugae
- hemlock
spp.;