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. 2, February 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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