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Regulated pests of quarantine significance (List B): include pests requiring more restrictive actions to meet special requirements in order to prevent the introduction and spread of such pests into, out-of and within Mississippi. Such requirements may include quarantines, surveys, special restrictions on regulated articles, or other emergency actions for which special rules or quarantines may be officially adopted under the Mississippi Plant Act ("Act"). List B includes exotic species not yet detected in Mississippi posing an economic threat to the environment as well as horticultural and agricultural crops in Mississippi and includes additional pests on USDA/APHIS/PPQ's "Regulated Plant Pest List," as determined by the state entomologist to meet the purpose of the Act and the following:

1. Insects/Arthropods and the plants they are likely to infest:

a. Africanized Honeybee, Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier. (See Mississippi Bee Disease Act, Sections 69-25-101 through Section 69-25-109 and Regulations-Subpart 3 - Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 06;

b. Argentine Ant, Iridomyrmex humilis (Mayr) (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 129);

c. Asian Longhorned wood borer, Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky);

d. Blueberry maggot, Rhagoletis mendax Curran - Blueberry;

e. Boll Weevil, Anothonomus grandis (Boheman) - Cotton (See Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Act, Sections 69-37-39 and Regulations- Subpart 03 -Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 13, Sections 100-114;

f. Brown-tail-moth, Nygmia phaeorrhoea (Donovan) - Apple, apricot, ash, beech, cherry, elm, grape, maple, oak, peach, pear, plum, quince, rose and many other trees and plants;

g. Cactus Moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) - Species of cacti;

h. Cotton square weevil (Peruvian), Anthonomus vestitus Boheman - Cotton;

i. Emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis (Fairmaire) - All species of ash trees;

j. European wood wasp, Sirex noctilio (Fabricus) - Pinus spp;

k. Formosan termite, Coptotermes formasanus (Shiraki) (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 134);

l. Spongy Moth, Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus) - Apple, beech, cherry, elm, gum, hickory, maple, oak, pine, pear, willow, and many other trees and plants;

m. Imported fire ant, Solenopsis saevissima v. richteri (Forel), Black Imported Fire ant, Solenopsis richteri (Forel) - Meadows, pastures, potatoes, okra, and other plants. (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 131);

n. Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica (Newman) - Feeds on a large number of fruit, shade and timber trees, small fruit, and ornamental plants, truck and field crops and weeds;

o. Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana (Walker) LBAM has been recorded from over 200 plants in 120 plant genera in 50 families. Some notable trees are apple, pear, peach, apricot, nectarine, citrus, persimmon, cherry, almond, avocado, oak, willow, walnut, poplar, cottonwood, coast redwood, pine, and eucalyptus. Some common shrub and herbaceous hosts are grape, kiwifruit, strawberry, berries (blackberry, blueberry, boysenberry, raspberry), corn, pepper, tomato, pumpkin, beans, cabbage, carrot, alfalfa, rose, camellia, jasmine, chrysanthemum, clover, and plantain;

p. Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) - Apple, apricot, bean, citrus, eggplant, fig, grape, Japanese persimmon, peach, red peppers, tomato and other plants;

q. Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens (Loew) - Guava, mango, orange, peach, plum, sapodilla, and sweet lime;

r. Pine shoot beetle, Tomicus piniperda (Linnaeus) - Pinus sp.;

s. Pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) - Cotton;

t. Pink hibiscus mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) - Citrus, vegetables, beans, cabbage, cucumber, pumpkin, tomato, various ornamental plants, avocado, fig, mango, sugarcane, peanuts, forest trees;

u. Rice Mite/Rice Panicle Mite, Steneotarsonemus spinki (Smiley) - Rice, Oryza sativa L., wild rice, Oryza latifolia (Desy), Weed: Schoenoplectus articulatus, family Cyperaceae;

v. Spotted Lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula (White) - Soybean, grapes, stonefruits, Malus spp.

w. Swede midge/cabbage midge, Contarinia nasturti (Keiffer) - Various species of brassica;

x. Sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarium elegantulus (Summers) - Sweet potato, morning glory and bindweed (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 125);

y. Viburnum leaf beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni (Paykull) - Viburnums;

z. West Indian sweet potato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus (Fairmaire) - Sweet Potato;

aa. Wooly hemlock adelgid, Adelges tsugae - hemlock spp.;

2. Diseases and the plants they are likely to infect:

a. Black rot, Ceratocystis fimbriata (Ellis and Halsted) - Sweet Potato;

b. Chyrsanthemum white rust, Puccinia horiana (P. Henn) - Chrysanthemum spp.;

c. Citrus canker, Xanthhomonas citri (Hasse) - Grapefruit, kumquat, lemon, lime, sweet orange, trifoliate orange, and other citrus plants;

d. Citrus greening or Huanglongbing or Yellow Dragon Disease, Candidatus liberobacter, africanus, asiaticus, American strains - Citrus;

e. Foolish Seedling Disease of rice/Bakanae disease, Gibberella fujikuroi Sawada var. fujikuroi - Rice;

f. Golden nematode, Heterodera rostochiensis (Wollenweber) - Irish potato, tomato, pepper, eggplant, carrots, and other vegetables;

g. Karnal Bunt, Tilletia indica - Wheat;

h. Lethal yellowing disease of palms, (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 130);

i. Ozonium root rot or Texas root rot, phymatotrichum omnivorum (Shear) - Cotton;

j. Peach mosaic, Marmor persicae (Holmes) - Peach;

k. Pecan bunch disease, (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 128);

l. Philippine Downy Mildew, Peronosclerospora philippinesis (W. Weston) -Corn;

m. Phony peach disease, (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 127);

n. Plum Pox Potyvirus - Stone fruits;

o. Potato cyst nematode, Globodera pallida, the white or pale PCN, and Globodera rostochiensis, the yellow or golden PCN - Irish potato;

p. Potato wart, Synchytrium endobiotricum (Schilbercky) - Irish potatoes;

q. Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 biovar 2 - Solanaceous vegetables (eggplant and tomato) and certain ornamentals. Causes brown rot of potato, bacterial wilt of tomato and eggplant, southern wilt of geranium;

r. Red Palm Mite, Raoiella indica - Various species of palm;

s. Rice Bacterial leaf blight, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. Oryzae - Rice;

t. Scurf, Monilochaetes infuscans (Elliott and Halston) - Sweet Potato;

u. Southern wilt, Bacterial wilt, Brown Rot of potato, Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 biovar 2 - Solanaceous crops, and Petunia, geranium and other ornamentals;

v. Sudden oak death or ramorum dieback, Phytophthora ramorum, various oaks (live oak, pin & red oak), rhododendron, azalea, Douglas fir, bay laurel, buckeye, maple, viburnum, and Japanese magnolia (See Federal order, federal host lists and regulations);

w. Sweet Potato Soil Rot, Streptomyces ipomoea (Person and Martin) - Sweet Potato;

x. Sweet Potato Stem Rot, Fusarium oxysporum f. batatas (Wollenweber) - Sweet Potato;

y. Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Geminivirus - Tomato and ornamental, vegetable;

z. Wheat stem rust (especially) Ug99, Puccinia graminis (especially) Ug99 -Wheat;

aa. X disease of peach, Carpophthora lacerano (Holmes) - peach;

3. Mollusks and some plants they are likely to infest:

a. Applesnails, Family Ampullaridae - Nursery stock, rice and other plants, (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 133);

b. Brown Garden Snail, Helix aspersa (Muller) - Nursery stock and vegetables, (See Regulations - Subpart 3, Bureau of Plant Industry, Chapter 01, Section 132);

c. Giant African Snails, Achatina fulica- Various ornamental plants and agronomic crops;

d. Snails of Genus, Zachrysia not known to occur in Mississippi;

4. Other pests as determined by the State Entomologist to be especially destructive for which emergency regulatory/quarantine actions are necessary to protect the agricultural and horticultural interests of the state.

Notes

2 Miss. Code. R. 1-3-01-102

Miss. Code Ann. § 69-25-7.

Amended June 26, 2008, September 11, 2008. Amended 7/3/2023