scholarly journals Jamaican Field Cricket, Gryllus assimilis (Fabricius) (Insecta: Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Walker
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
New World ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Field Cricket ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
The West ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Field Crickets ◽  
Scientific Name

This species was first described from Jamaica and is widespread in the West Indies. It may have first become established in south Florida as recently as the early 1950's. Its scientific name (Gryllus assimilis or Acheta assimilis) was applied to all New World field crickets until 1957. This document is EENY-069, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: January 1999. Reviewed: May 2003. EENY069/IN226: Jamaican Field Cricket, Gryllus assimilis (Fabricius) (Insecta: Orthoptera: Gryllidae) (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals A Spiny Orb Weaver Spider, Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2004 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
The West ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Geographic Race ◽  
Crab Spider ◽  
Crab Spiders

One of the more colorful spiders in Florida is a spiny orb weaver, Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus) 1767. Although not as large as some of the other common orb weavers (e.g., Argiope, Levi 1968; Neoscona, Edwards 1984), the combination of color, shape, and web characteristics make G. cancriformis one of the most conspicuous of spiders. The colloquial name for this spider in parts of Florida is "crab spider", although it is not related to any of the families of spiders commonly called crab spiders, e.g., Thomisidoe. This species belongs to a pantropical genus which contains many species in the Old World. With the possible exception of the West Indian G. tetracantha (L.) (which may be only a geographic race), G. cancriformis is the only species of its genus to occur in the New World, ranging from the southern United States to northern Argentina (Levi 1978). The bite of this common species is not known to cause serious effects to humans. This document is EENY-167 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 308), one of the Featured Creatures series of the Entomology andNematology Department, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: October 2000.  EENY-167/IN324: Spiny Orb Weaver Spider, Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals Blister Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Meloidae)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2004 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Selander ◽  
Thomas R. Fasulo
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Cooperative Extension ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
The West ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
The Family ◽  
Agricultural Sciences ◽  
The U.S

The family Meloidae, blister beetles, contains about 2500 species, divided among 80 genera and three subfamilies. Florida has 26 species, only a small fraction of the total number in the U.S., but nearly three times that in the West Indies (Selander and Bouseman 1960). Adult beetles are phytophagous, feeding especially on plants in the families Amaranthaceae, Compositae, Leguminosae, and Solanaceae. Most adults eat only floral parts, but some, particularly those of Epicauta spp., eat leaves as well. This document is EENY-166 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 268), one of the Featured Creatures series of the Entomology and Nematology Department, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: October 2000. Revised: August 2003. EENY166/IN323: Blister Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Meloidae) (ufl.edu)

Book Reviews

1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-205
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
West Indies ◽  
South Florida ◽  
The West ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
The People ◽  
The Caribbean

-Peter Hulme, Simon Gikandi, Writing in limbo: Modernism and Caribbean literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. x + 260 pp.-Charles V. Carnegie, Alistair Hennessy, Intellectuals in the twentieth-century Caribbean (Volume 1 - Spectre of the new class: The Commonwealth Caribbean). London: Macmillan, 1992. xvii 204 pp.-Nigel Rigby, Anne Walmsley, The Caribbean artists movement, 1966-1972: A literary and cultural history. London: New Beacon Books, 1992. xx + 356 pp.-Carl Pedersen, Tyrone Tillery, Claude McKay: A black poet's struggle for identity. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. xii + 235 pp.-Simone Dreyfus, Irving Rouse, The Tainos: Rise and decline of the people who greeted Columbus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. xii + 211 pp.-Louis Allaire, Antonio M. Stevens-Arroyo, Cave of the Jagua: The mythological world of the Taino. Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. xiii + 282 pp.-Irving Rouse, William F. Keegan, The people who discovered Columbus: The prehistory of the Bahamas. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1992. xx + 279 pp.-Neil L. Whitehead, Philip P. Boucher, Cannibal encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992. xii + 217 pp.-Peter Kloos, Kaliña, des amérindiens à Paris: Photographies du prince Roland. Présentées par Gérard Collomb. Paris: Créaphis, 1992. 119 pp.-Maureen Warner-Lewis, Alan Gregor Cobley ,The African-Caribbean connection: Historical and cultural perspectives. Bridgetown, Barbados: Department of History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, 1990. viii + 171 pp., Alvin Thompson (eds)-H. Hoetink, Jean-Luc Bonniol, La couleur comme maléfice: une illustration créole de la généalogie des 'Blancs' et des 'Noirs'. Paris: Albin Michel, 1992. 304 pp.-Michael Aceto, Richard Price ,Two evenings in Saramaka. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xvi + 417 pp., Sally Price (eds)-Jorge Pérez Rolón, Vernon W. Boggs, Salsiology: Afro-Cuban music and the evolution of Salsa in New York City. New York: Greenwood, 1992. xvii + 387 pp.-Martin F. Murphy, Sherri Grasmuck ,Between two islands: Dominican international migration. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xviii + 247 pp., Patricia R. Pessar (eds)-Rosario Espinal, Richard S. Hillman ,Distant neighbors in the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic and Jamaica in comparative perspective. New York: Praeger, 1992. xviii + 199 pp., Thomas D'Agostino (eds)-Svend E. Holsoe, Neville A.T. Hall, Slave society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. Edited by B.W. Higman. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1992. xxiv + 287 pp.-Light Townsend Cummins, Francisco Morales Padrón, The journal of Don Francisco Saavedra de Sangronis 1780-1783. Translated by Aileen Moore Topping. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1989. xxxvii + 380 pp.-Francisco A. Scarano, Laird W. Bergad, Cuban rural society in the nineteenth century: The social and economic history of monoculture in Matanzas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xxi + 425 pp.-Robert L. Paquette, Larry R. Jensen, Children of colonial despotism: Press, politics, and culture in Cuba, 1790-1840. Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1988. xviii + 211 pp.-Robert L. Paquette, Anton L. Allahar, Class, politics, and sugar in colonial Cuba. Lewiston NY; The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990. xi + 217 pp.-Aline Helg, Josef Opatrny, U.S. Expansionism and Cuban annexationism in the 1850s. Prague: Charles University, 1990. 271 pp.-Rita Giacalone, Humberto García Muñiz ,Bibliografía militar del Caribe. Río Piedras PR: Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1992. 177 pp., Betsaida Vélez Natal (eds)-Carlos E. Santiago, Irma Tirado de Alonso, Trade issues in the Caribbean. Philadelphia: Gordon & Breach, 1992. xv + 231 pp.-Drexel G. Woodson, Frantz Pratt, Haiti: Guide to the periodical literature in English, 1800-1990. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1991. xiv + 313 pp.-Gary Brana-Shute, Livio Sansone, Hangen boven de oceaan: het gewone overleven van Creoolse jongeren in Paramaribo. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 1992. 58 pp.-Ronald Gill, Dolf Huijgers ,Landhuizen van Curacao en Bonaire. Amsterdam: Persimmons Management. 1991. 286 pp., Lucky Ezechiëls (eds)-Alex van Stipriaan, Waldo Heilbron, Colonial transformations and the decomposition of Dutch plantation slavery in Surinam. Amsterdam: Amsterdam centre for Caribbean studies (AWIC), University of Amsterdam, 1992. 133 pp.-Rosemarijn Hoefte, Bea Lalmahomed, Hindostaanse vrouwen: de geschiedenis van zes generaties. Utrecht: Jan van Arkel, 1992. 159 pp.-Aart G. Broek, Peter Hoefnagels ,Antilliaans spreekwoordenboek. Amsterdam: Thomas Rap, 1991. 92 pp., Shon Wé Hoogenbergen (eds)

scholarly journals Hieroglyphic Moth, Diphthera festiva (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2005 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Dunford ◽  
Kathryn A. Barbara
Keyword(s):  
Sweet Potato ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Cooperative Extension ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Agricultural Sciences ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

The hieroglyphic moth, Diphthera festiva (Fabricius), is distributed throughout Florida and tropical or subtropical regions of the New World. The conspicuous larvae often occur gregariously on a wide array of plant species and occasionally are considered pests of pecan, coconut palms, sweet potato and soybeans. This document is EENY-326, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: May 2004. EENY326/IN601: Hieroglyphic Moth, Diphthera festiva (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals Summary of 2002 Ridge and Indian River-South Florida Citrus Caretaker Surveys

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald P. Muraro
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Extension ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Agricultural Sciences ◽  
Indian River ◽  
Florida Citrus

This is EDIS document FE 349, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published March 2003. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe349

scholarly journals Melonworm, Diaphania hyalinata Linnaeus (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Capinera
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
South Florida ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Northern Limit ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
The Caribbean

Melonworm, Diaphania hyalinata Linnaeus, occurs throughout most of Central and South America and the Caribbean. The United States is the northern limit of its permanent range, and wintertime occurrence generally is limited to south Florida and perhaps south Texas. Melonworm disperses northward annually. Its distribution during the summer months is principally the southeastern states, though occasionally it disperses north to NewEngland and the Great Lakes region. This document is EENY-163, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: October 2000.  EENY163/IN320: Melonworm, Diaphania hyalinata Linnaeus (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Crambidae) (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals Cuban Subterranean Termite (proposed), Florida Dampwood Termite (old unofficial name), Prorhinotermes simplex (Hagen) (Insecta: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2004 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf H. Scheffrahn ◽  
Nan-Yao Su ◽  
Brian Cabrera ◽  
William Kern, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New World ◽  
Cooperative Extension ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Subterranean Termite ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Coastal Habitats ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Dampwood Termite

Prorhinotermes is a tropical genus of some 20 species with the greatest diversity in Southeast Asia. Three species of Prorhinotermes occur in the New World including Prorhinotermes simplex (Hagen). This species is endemic to and known only from southeastern Florida, western Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Species of Prorhinotermes generally live in or near coastal habitats and on islands. This document is EENY-282, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: January 2003. EENY282/IN558: Cuban Subterranean Termite (proposed), Florida Dampwood Termite (old unofficial name), Prorhinotermes simplex (Hagen) (Insecta: Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae) (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals Florida Avocado Production and Profitability Analysis

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2005 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Extension ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Average Yield ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Profitability Analysis ◽  
Made In

This article provides an estimate of the costs and returns associated with avocado production in Miami-Dade County and a brief analysis of the profitability of the industry. The budget is based on a 5-year average yield of 8,000 pounds per acre (assuming a pack-out rate of 94%) and on estimates of the current average F.O.B. price in South Florida of $0.85 per pound. The budget does not make any provision for establishment costs. Although the assumptions made in computing the costs reflect the practices of the avocado growers in the area, the information provided here is intended only as a guide to facilitate estimating the financial requirements of maintaining avocado groves. Data used in the analysis were obtained from interviews with growers and Extension specialists. This is EDIS document FE575, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published November 2005. 

scholarly journals Applesnails (of Florida), Pomacea spp. (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Pilidae)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2005 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lionel A. Stange
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Extension ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
South Florida ◽  
The Other ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Pomacea Paludosa ◽  
The Third ◽  
Rostrhamus Sociabilis ◽  
Rice Pest

There are three species of applesnails in Florida. One is native and the others are introduced. The Florida applesnail, Pomacea paludosa, occurs throughout peninsular Florida (Thompson 1984). It is the principal food of the Everglades Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus Ridgway) and thus should be considered beneficial. The spiketopped applesnail, Pomacea bridgesi, was introduced many years ago into South Florida. However, it is the third species of Pomacea, P. canaliculata, that has caused recent concern to agriculture. This species grows nearly twice the size as the other two species and has become a serious rice pest in many countries. This document is EENY-323 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 388), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: March 2004.  EENY323/IN598: Applesnails of Florida Pomacea spp. (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals Care and Maintenance of Landscape Palms in South Florida

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2002 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva C. Worden ◽  
Timothy K. Broschat ◽  
Charles Yurgalevitch
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Extension ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Agricultural Sciences

This document is ENH 866, one of a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date June 10, 2002. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ep119

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