Arkansas Administrative Code
Agency 209 - Arkansas Agriculture Department
Division 02 - State Plant Board
Rule 209.02.01-005 - Additions to the Public Nuisance Declared List - To add 10 new pests which may threaten different aspects of Arkansas Agriculture

Universal Citation: AR Admin Rules 209.02.01-005

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 9, September, 2024

SECTION I. PUBLIC NUISANCE DECLARED The following plant diseases, insect pests and noxious weeds, under the provisions of the Arkansas Plant Act (A.C.A. § 2-16 - 201 et seq) are hereby declared to be a public nuisance, including anything infected, infested or contaminated therewith. The extent to which these plant diseases, insect pests and noxious weeds are regulated is covered in this and other Plant Board circulars. Italized pests are intent of horticulture inspections.

A. Plant Disease Pests Listed
1. Chestnut blight (chestnut and chinquapin)

2. Phony peach, peach mosaic and peach rosette

3. Fusiform and other gall rusts of pines

4. Texas root rot (cotton and other plants)

5. Oak wilt (oak, chestnut and other trees and shrubs)

6. Cedar-apple rust

7. Fire blight (pear, apple and other plants)

8. Root knot nematode

9. Soybean cyst nematode

10. Foliar nematodes (Aphelenchoides besseyi and others)

11. Crown gall and other infectious galls

12. Hairy root of apple and rose

13. Bacterial spot of peach

14. Strawberry dwarf

15. Red stele of strawberry

16. Virus diseases on horticultural crops

17. Strawberry yellows (genetic)

18. Infectious cankers

19. Bacterial spot of tomato

20. Alternaria and septoria leaf spots of tomato

21. Late blight of tomato

22. Camellia petal blight

23. Azalea petal blight

24. Hoja blanca disease of rice

25. Internal cork of sweet potato

26. Black rot of sweet potato

27. Stem rot of sweet potato

28. Anthracnose on various host plants

29. Pink root of onion

30. Sting nematode

31. Blights and leaf spots damaging to plants

32. Collar rot

33. Dutch Elm disease

34. Phloem necrosis

35. Bud rot on strawberries

36. Fusarium wilt of tomatoes (all races)

37.Blueberry nursery stock diseases

38. Pinew ood nematode

39. Blackleg of rape

40. Rose Rossette

41. Plum pox virus

42. Sudden Oak Death

43. Day Lily Rust

44. Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus

B. Insect Pests Listed
1. Pink bollworm (cotton and okra)

2. Sweet Potato weevil

3. Fruit flies (fruit and vegetable) does not apply to Drosophila

4. Khapra beetle and other stored grain insects

5. Bruchids and other pest of seeds (seeds of crops and other plants)

6. Japanese Beetle (trees, fruits, vegetables and other plants)

7. Gypsy and Browntail moths and other leaf-feeding insects (trees, shrubs and other plants)

8. Fire ant, Argentine ant, carpenter ant and other injurious ants

9. Vegetable weevil

10. White-fringed beetle

11. European chafer

12. Termites

13. Powderpost beetles

14. San Jose scale and other scale insects

15. Wooly Aphis

16. White flies

17. Strawberry crown borer

18. Pine tip moth and other insects attacking pine shoots

19. Oriental fruit moth

20. Borers of all kinds

21. European red mite and other spider mites

22. Bagworms and other leaf-eating insects

23. Thrips

24. Aphids

25. Harlequin bugs

26. Roaches and other household insect pests

27. Elm leaf beetle

28. Cereal leaf beetle

29. Southern pine beetle

30. Brown garden snail, or any other plant destroying snail

31. Asian Ambrosia Beetle

32. Asian Longhorn beetle Anoplophora glabripennis

33. Pink Hibiscus Mealybug Maconellicoccus hirsutus

34. Channeled Apple Snail Pemacea canaliculata (Lamarck)

C. Noxious Weeds Listed
1. Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvenis)

2. Nut grass (Cyperus rotundus)

3. Wild onion and/or wild garlic (Allium spp.)

4. Johnson grass (Sorghum halapense)

5. Dodder (Cuscuta spp.)

6. Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon)

7. Cheat or Chess (Bromus secalinus) and/or (Bromus commutatus)

8. Darnel (Lolium temulentum)

9. Corncockle (Agrostemma githago)

10. Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense)

11. Purple nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium)

12. Buckhorn plantain (Plantago lanceolata)

13. Bracted plantain (Plantago aristata)

14. Rumex spp.

15. Blueweed (Helianthus ciliaris)

16. Morning Glory (Ipomea spp.)

17. Hedge Bindweed (C. sepium)

18. Red rice (Oryza sativa var.)

19. Curly indigo (Aeschynomene virginica)

20. Tall indigo or coffee bean (Sesbania exaltata)

21. Giant foxtail (Setaria faberi)

22. Witchweed (Striga spp.)

23. Crotalaria (Crotalaria spp.)

24. Cocklebur (Xanthium spp.)

25. Moonflower (Calonyction muricatum)

26. Alligatorweed (Alternanthera spp.)

27. Balloonvine (Cardiospermum halicacabum)

28. Itchgrass (Rottboellia exaltata)

29. Thistle (Carduus, Cirsium, Onopordum, Silybum, Scolymus, Salsola and other genera)

30. Serrated Tussock (Nassella trichotoma)

31. Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)

32. Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crusgalli)

33. Giant Salvinia (Salvinia molesta)

34. Tropical Soda Apple (Solanum viarum dunal)

35. Cogongrass (Imperota cylindrica)

Any foreign insect, plant disease or weed which may be brought into Arkansas and whose habits and injuriousness under the conditions of agriculture in Arkansas are unknown, is regarded as dangerous and is declared to be a public nuisance.

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