There is damage on my garden plants.
What is causing it? Bugs? Disease? Outside influences? Here are some clues to figure out what might be the damage causing pests on my garden plants..
If the damage is done by a bug/pest, it can happen every so often and other times, garden plants are annihilated within hours. If a deer eats your plant, it will be tortured – possibly ripped from the ground, all leaves nibbled to the base of stems, and it will happen thoroughly and overnight. Typically, deer eat no higher than 3 feet off the ground so if the damage is above 4 feet high off the ground, it is likely not deer.
If garden plants are being eaten by bugs, there will be some signs.
Chewing pests have small mouths that will leave serrated edges on leaves and stems. Bugs often munch left to right, then right to left which causes an arc of damage that is not a smooth line. But there are other ways bugs can damage your plants.
Leaf Miners are significant garden pests that affect a lot of landscape plants. But they do not chew – they live on the undersides of leaves and cause damage from below the surface. Leaf Miners have small straw-like mouth parts that they inject into the undersides of leaves and suck out the chlorophyll causing a whitish cast.
Scale is an interesting one – they are very hard outer shell egg sacks laid on the undersides of leaves. When the eggs hatch, they go into the plant to begin the slow demolition of the host plant they were laid upon.
White fly is also an underside the leaf kind of pest. If you shake a plant infested with White Fly, a gazillion tiny white flies scatter and then return to their place under the leaves.
Aphids are frequent pests in the garden. Adult Wooly Aphids look like tiny shreds of cotton walking around on the plant.
Most Aphids live on the undersides of leaves and can shock you with the volume of egg sacks. The interesting thing about Aphids is they secrete an enzyme that serves as a perfect host for fungus known as black mold (or sooty mold) that makes leaves and stems turn black. You treat the fungus by treating the Aphids.
Other bugs that cause damage are Mealy Bugs, Spider Mites, Japanese Beetles, and the list goes on.
If one of your garden plants looks damaged, start by looking closely at the tops and undersides of leaves.
If there are clusters of eggs on the undersides of leaves, you have some pests about to hatch and damage your garden plants. If there is evidence of Aphids, Leaf Miner, Scale, White Fly, Mealy Bugs, Spider Mites, Japanese Beetles, and a slew of other Garden Bugs, then consider a Greenbug System to control garden pests.
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A Greenbug System will control pest damage to your garden plants.
Learn what the problem is so you can correct it. And be sure to use all-natural, eco-friendly options like Greenbug!
