Introduction. North American vegetable crops ; Insects and insect relatives ; Pest management philosophy and practices
Pest identification. General considerations ; Why identification is so important? ; Approaches to identification
Guide to pests arranged by vegetable crops
Class Insecta : insects. Order Coleoptera : beetles, weevils, white grubs and wireworms
Order Dermaptera : earwigs
Order Diptera : flies and maggots
Order Hemiptera : bugs
Order Homoptera : aphids, leaf- and planthoppers, psyllids and whiteflies
Order Hymenoptera : ants and sawflies
Order Lepidoptera : caterpillars, moths and butterflies
Order Orthoptera : grasshoppers and crickets
Order Thysanoptera : thrips
Other invertebrate pests
Appendix A. Other aids for pest identification
Appendix B. Other sources of information about vegetable crop pests
Appendix C. Vegetable plant names
Appendix D. Journal abbreviations and journal titles.