plant pests
Garden's unwanted visitors
Plant pests are organisms that damage crops, gardens, or other cultivated vegetation.
The term covers insects, mites, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and sometimes weeds or invasive plants.
Farmers and gardeners employ various controls—pesticides, biological agents, crop rotation—to manage them.
Aphids are among the most common plant pests.
- aphidsSap-feeding garden insects
- beetlesHard-winged insects
- Japanese beetlesInvasive scarab from Asia
- grasshoppersJumping, chirping insects
- caterpillarsLarval moths or butterflies
cabbage worms · tomato hornworm · dandelions · rusts · nematodes · pest control · blights · fungi · smuts · mealybugs · thrips · weevils · leafhoppers · borers · cutworms · whiteflies · sawflies · chewing insects
plant pestsbeneficial insects
Arthropods aiding agriculture
pollinators · bees · natural predators · predatory insects · earthworms
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Spotted red beetles
lacewings · ground beetles · parasitic wasps · companion plants · cover crops