Cereals are grasses (members of the monocot family Poaceae, also known as Gramineae) cultivated for the edible components of their grain. Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities and provide more food energy worldwide than any other type of crop. Most are annual plants with wheat, rye, triticale, oats, barley, and spelt cool-season cereals. Barley and rye are the hardiest cereals, able to overwinter in the subarctic conditions.
Cereals
Pests associated with Cereals
- English grain aphid Sitobion avenae
- Birdcherry oat aphid Rhopalosiphum padi
- Melon & Cotton Aphid Aphis gossypii
- Tobacco Whitefly Bemisia tabaci
- Cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera
- Corn earworm Helicoverpa zea
- Green peach aphid Myzus persicae
- Fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda
Other pests associated with Cereals
- Rose-grain aphid (Metopolophium dirhodum)
- Cereal Leaf Beetle (Oulema melanopa)
- Black Cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon)
- Cotton Leafworm (Alabama argillacea)
- Rice Leafroller (Cnaphalocrocis medinalis)
- Wheat yellow blossom midge (Contarinia tritici)
- Wheat bulb fly (Delia coarctata)
- Potato leafhopper (Empoasca fabae)
- Greenbug (Schizaphis graminum)