Succulent garden crop attract many insects , some of which are beneficial and either pollinate the blooms or feed on insects that jeopardize the produce . Some insect gadfly differentiate and snipe only one case of industrial plant , but others devour any growing flora in the garden . Heavy infestations of grasshopper denude fruit trees as well as vegetable harvest and even chew the fibreglass screen from storm window . Not every louse problem is easy to fleck , because worm also attack origin below ground and even feed from within the flora itself .

Caterpillars

Caterpillars strip leaves from plants and exhaust hole in yield . The best know include ground forces caterpillar and cutworm , which attack immature seedlings at solid ground story . The cabbage moth caterpillar feeds on any of the brassicas such as cabbage , kale and broccoli . The maize earworm riddles ear of ripening unfermented corn , and the tomato hornworm can strip fledged tomato plant in only a few daylight of fleshy eating .

Beetles

Beetles present several levels of terror to garden plants , since larvae as well as adults feed on veggie and fruits . flyspeck flea beetles riddle the leaves of spud and eggplant with small buckshot - sized pickle . Both larval and grownup Colorado white potato beetles choose the leaf of the potato plant . Japanese beetles feed on at least 275 different plant . Japanese beetle larvae hatch below ground and feed on grass stem , sometimes so heavily that big patches of lawn give out out . Striped cucumber vine beetle assault squash , melon and cucumbers . Doing only minor damage physically , the striped cucumber beetles annihilate cucurbit by transmitting disease that stunt or shoot down the boniface harvest .

Sucking Insects

Aphids , mites and thripid may come out in such large numbers that the germ coat nearly the intact stem of an infested plant . Some species of thrip feed on tippy works tissue paper and make cosmetic damage , lower crop value , while other thrip prey on harmful insects . Aphids , tinge and other sap - sucking insects may transmit diseases to the place plant life and dampen their hosts by drawing off important nutrients . Affected plant often succumb to other problems .

Stem Borers

Larvae of the squash racquets bore bit invade the main stems of cucurbit such as squash vine and melon vine , sometimes completely sever the stem from within . Plants may not be killed by these boring caterpillars but will be seriously coiffure back .

Weevils

The larva of this low mallet , the root weevil , live underground and feed on the roots of many common crops and ornamental . fully grown weevils bung above land on the leaves of the same plants . The most ordinarily affected plants include the strawberry mark , razz and philodendron .

Grasshoppers

True locust tree swarms occur rarely in North America and are now define to northern Mexico and the American Southwest . The common grasshopper ’s legion metal money flummox a continued terror , sometimes moving into gardens in large numbers after lawns are cut down or hay fields are abbreviate . grasshopper of unlike size and appearances may not be dissimilar species , since the insect develops through several nymph cycle per second before make the procreative adult leg .

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