Abstract
An investigation on pests on landscape plants was carried out in Jiaying University campus to understand the occurrence of main pests and provide the reference for the pest integrated management. The results showed that the pests belong to 2 classes, 7 orders, 49 families, 79 genera, 85 species, which damaged the leaves, roots, stems and other parts of plants by feeding the leaves, sucking juice and boring the branches and trunks. Both species and number of Lepidoptera were the highest, followed by Hemiptera, Orthoptera, Coleoptera, Acarina, Hymenoptera and Thysanopter. According to the damage way, the species and the number of leaf-feeding pests were most, followed by the juice-sucking pests, and the boring pest were least. Cheliden iumargentatum Dalman, Plagiodera versicolora Laicharting, Sinomegoura photiniae Takahashi, Anoplophora chinensis Forster and Daphnis nerii Linnaeus were the serious pests damaging the campus plants.
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