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Sunflower Insect Pests

Seedling Pests

• Darksided Cutworm
• Dingy Cutworm
• Pale Striped Flea Beetles
• Pale Western Cutworm
• Sandhill Cutworm

Head Infesting Pests

• Banded Sunflower Moth
• Grasshoppers
• Head Clipper Weevil
• Painted Lady Butterfly
• Red and Gray Sunflower Weevils
• Sunflower Beetle
• Sunflower Bud Moth
• Sunflower Midge
• Sunflower Moth
• Sunflower Receptacle Maggot
• Sunflower Seed Maggot

Stem Feeding Pests

• Sunflower Stem Weevil
• Dectes stem borer

Root Feeding Pests

• Carrot Beetle
• Sunflower Root Weevil
• Wireworms
• Key to Field Problems Affecting Sunflowers

Sunflower Diseases

• Alternaria Leaf Spot
• Apical Chlorosis
• Aster Yellows
• Bacterial Stalk Rot
• Bract Necrosis
• Charcoal Rot
• Damping Off, Seedling Blight
• Downy Mildew
• Phoma Black Stem
• Phomopsis Brown Stem Canker
• Rhizopus Head Rot
• Red Rust
• Root Rot Disease
• Sclerotinia
• Seed Rots
• Septoria Leaf Spot
• Sunflower Mosaic
• Verticillium Wilt
• White Rust
• Additional Diseases for which no pesticides are labeled