crop pests
Agriculture's unwanted visitors
Crop pests are insects, animals, or other organisms that damage agricultural plants.
The term covers everything from aphids and locusts to rodents and birds that feed on or destroy crops: Farmers lost half their yield to crop pests this season.
Pest management strategies range from chemical pesticides to biological controls like introducing natural predators.
- beetlesHard-winged insects
- Japanese beetlesInvasive scarab from Asia
- caterpillarsLarval moths or butterflies
- tent caterpillarsWeb-spinning tree larvae
- cabbage wormsButterfly larvae eating brassicas
aphids · rats · locusts · dandelions · powdery mildew · armyworms · bindweed · wild boars · cutworms · downy mildew · whiteflies · wireworms · boll weevils · thrips · mice · quackgrass · stink bugs · deer
- crop pestsaphids, aphid, armyworm, beetles, cutworms
- flea beetles
- pest controlinsecticide, rat trap, pesticide, mousetrap, exterminator
- Dangerous Creaturessharks, lions, tigers, crocodiles, bears
- climate impactsglobal warming, rising temperatures, rising temps, extreme weather, sea level rise
- invasive speciesinvasive species, lionfish, emerald ash borer, noxious weeds, kudzu
crop pestsbeneficial insects
Arthropods aiding agriculture
pollinators · bees · earthworms · decomposers · ladybugs
crop pestsnatural enemies
Organisms that instinctively oppose
predatory insects · ladybugs · lacewings · ground beetles · hoverflies