Questions tagged [pest-damage]
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Should I earth up my radishes to prevent them from being eaten or should I pull them out?
My back yard lacks a bit of sunshine so things don't grow as fast, but they do grow.
I've recently planted radishes for the first time and they have already started pushing out of the ground, however ...
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What are the teeny tiny white bugs on my tomatoes?
The bugs are exceptionally small. I've included a video here.
It may be related to the stretched and disfigured appearance of my tomatoes.
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What's attacking one Lupin but not its neighbor?
I have two Lupin plants next to each other in my front yard:
They are both Russell hybrids, both grown from seed and planted there at the same time in Spring 2009. The one on the left is healthy, ...
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How can I control Viburnum Beetle on my Snowball tree?
I have a mature Snowball tree (Viburnum opulus) that is stripped of its leaves and severely weakened several times a year by the viburnum beetle. The Royal Horticultural Society recommend several ...
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How to stop small black worms from eating my strawberries?
I planted strawberries a couple of years ago in a small patch of my back yard (in Sacramento, CA) and this year they are finally producing lots of strawberries. However, something is eating "divots" ...
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Can anyone identify this abnormality that is on my dwarf citrus?
I recently noticed what looks like small beetles on our dwarf citrus tree. Can anyone identify this abnormality?
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Is this something harmful that I should attempt to treat?
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Tips to help an ash tree, trying to grow from the roots of an EAB victim
Two years ago, emerald ash borer struck my region. I and several of my neighbors made the tree services rich, taking down the trees before they came down on their own and causing damages. I lost ...
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What is causing the bark on my crabapple to crack and peel off?
I have a flowering crabapple in my yard whose bark has several large areas where it cracks and curls away from the wood underneath:
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I don't ...
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What is pulling up tufts of grass all over my lawn?
I went to mow the yard today and found 1-2 inch plugs of grass pulled out of the ground all over the place. It looks more like the result of digging than a deliberate pulling out.
What could be doing ...
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How do I repel tree squirrels that are digging holes in my lawn?
My neighborhood is saturated with squirrels, and I see the little critters burying nuts or whatever in my back yard all the time. They leave small holes about 2 inches in diameter in the yard. There ...
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How can I keep earwigs from eating my basil?
Last night I found that earwigs have been eating my newly planted basil plants. They have only been in the ground for a few days, and it didn't take long for the earwigs to find them.
The planted ...
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Dying tree with many holes
There is a medium-sized tree on my property that’s in trouble (it’s some sort of fruiting berry tree: cherry?). I just noticed that it is way behind the other trees in terms of leaves, about 1/3 of ...
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Are these maggots and are they okay in the soil around the roots of a fruit tree?
Just dug these up from around the roots of a stone fruit tree. Are they maggots? Are they good or bad for the soil around the roots of the tree? Do they harm the tree in any way? If yes to the ...
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Do pine beetles kill healthy pitch pines, or is it safe to plant seedlings to replace trees killed by them?
We need to remove a number of trees that have been killed by some kind of pine beetle - presumably black turpentine beetle - on eastern Long Island. These trees had suffered injury from salt spray ...
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How can I deal with the beetles eating my grapevine?
My mother is in a furor because the grapevine that she planted last spring and which flourished last year is now infested with little black bugs. From what I can tell, they seem to be flea beetles. (...
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Is it OK to plant flowering plants near my herb garden?
I have mint, tarragon, sweet basil etc. Beside is another plot for different kinds of roses and daises. Then the roses started to lose leaves or have bites on the leaves. Do the herbs attract insects ...
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Translucent spots on leaves
Recently, several of my plants have developed these translucent spots on their leaves:
What is causing this? What should I do?
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What's eating my broccoli and kale, and what can I do to prevent it?
Something has been eating my broccoli and kale plants. I haven't seen anything on it, so I'm not sure what it is. It started eating the leaves and has progressed to eating stems and recently seems to ...
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Has anyone seen this kind of eggs in their kale and strawberry?
I guess these are eggs of some pest which is infecting the kale and strawberry plants in our garden. Has anyone seen something similar to this? If yes, what did you do to get rid of them without any ...
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What is this dark leafy vegetable plant? What's causing holes in the leaves, and how can I help it?
I got a variety of seeds from a friend. Most were swiss chard and butter lettuce but this one is different. Also it's the only one that's getting riddled with little holes. What's eating it? What ...
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Deer ate my lily buds last year. Will the bulbs survive this year?
My mother has been raising an ever-growing family of lilies of various colors for the past 15 years. In the previous house, they would grow to almost 6-foot tall while in the new house (which gets a ...
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What harm can moles do to my garden?
In the last year, we've started seeing more and more moles in our large lawn area... From the odd hill at one corner to many all over.
I know moles are a big problem for those aiming for perfectly ...
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Are the white sections on my bean plant's leaves caused by white flies?
I have been planting a few beans in my backyard, in a pot. The plants sprout well and start growing well. After a week or less the leaves have these white lines and patches on them. I had pepper ...
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Damaged blueberry plants
I have two small blueberry bushes that I planted last summer.
During winter I've had a hare/rabbit that has chewed them up. Only the 2-3 innermost biggest core branches of each plant remains and ...
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What is this white crust forming on my cactus during the growing months?
I live in the UK and have a Trichocereus bridgesii/Echinopsis lageniformis "monstrose" cactus that I bought from a garden centre 3 years ago. Every year in early summer several new stems grow from ...
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How do I prevent holes in the leaves of my vegetable garden?
Something is eating the leaves of several plants in my vegetable garden. Can you help determine what is causing this and how I can prevent it?
This affects several of my vegetables: Turnips, Lettuce, ...
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Should I remove the tiny, cute, white and red bugs from my Umbrella plant (Variegated Schefflera)?
I wiped the leaves of this Umbrella plant (Variegated Schefflera) some weeks ago. Now I am seeing all these white and red bugs on the leaves of the plant. I can easily take them off with a stick. ...
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Will Arborvitae regrow to their usual shape after being partially eaten by deer?
I planted a bunch of Arborvitae in my yard and last winter the deer ate the bottom portion of 2 or 3 of them. I did some Googling to see if they'd grow back, and while most sources say that they will ...
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Black beetle identification, crawling on potato plant
I need help identifying a beetle I found in my garden. I've never seen them before, but suddenly today there were many of them crawling around my russet potato plants. They were quite active and ...
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What birdseed can I use to attract native birds in Houston, TX, that won't attract squirrels?
I'd like to know what kind of bird seed would be good for the birds in the Houston area without attracting pests or creating a harmful environment for my garden.
I've tried going to the local pet ...
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Will beans or peas grow back after being topped by a deer?
A deer got at my peas and beans. The peas seem to still have some leaves and stem. The beans are missing most of their leaves. Do either plants have any chance of regrowing or should I scrap them all ...
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Are these yellow spots due to heat?
This is a kohleria plant.
It had gone thorough a 5 day deficit of water back in Feb/Mar. From that day, it started to develop yellow spots along the rim of the leaves. These have remained as the ...
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What is this mark that appears on my small green plums?
After the flowers fell the green plums started growing. As soon as they were 1/4" across, They began developing these little sunken black marks. I have been consistently spraying with fruit tree spray....
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What could be eating my beet greens?
I have some rows of beets, and it seems that something has started to eat their beet greens. Interestingly, whatever is eating them seems to be working its way methodically up the row, rather than ...
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Identify this bug attacking rose buds
The buds on two of my rose plants are being attacked by something that damages the outer petals. I've been spraying with an organic pesticide but it doesn't seem to be having much effect. What can ...
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What might be eating small holes in my bell pepper?
There appears to be something eating very small holes into my pepper fruits. At first I suspected an insect, but upon cutting the pepper open there were no signs of investation. One of the holes even ...
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Will a basil seedling regrow after its leaves were eaten?
I planted purple basil a couple of months ago; its true leaves were beginning to develop but a slug (I'm guessing) devoured all the leaves from the seedlings.
The stems are present so will it still ...
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What are these white with black caterpillars eating Petunias in Albuquerque, New Mexico?
I'm visiting grandparents in Albuquerque, New Mexico and am trying to help perk up some of their potted and hanging potted plants. It doesn't take long for plants to dwindle in this area (dry and hot ...
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Chilli plant showing deformed leaves with brown traces under leaves
I am having trouble finding what is causing my chilli plant to look unhealthy. My googling suggest it may be a pest problem but there are no signs of pests on the plant. I have briefly seen the odd ...
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Dealing with mealy bug infestation on jades
I have a couple of jade and dwarf jades on my windowsill, and I think they've been infested with mealy bugs - I had an infestation about a year ago, on a different plant, and I think it spread to the ...
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Why is this boxwood suffering? Is it box blight or an insect-infection?
I have two small boxwood hedges in my garden which I have trained over the years by cutting into the form of a cuboid. One hedge is in a shady and wet place, one is fully exposed to the sun, south ...
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Spots & holes appearing on rocket leaves
Does anyone know what these spots & holes are that appeared all over my otherwise happy rocket crop recently?
I'm not sure if it's related, but there has been a lot of rainfall in my area ...
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Young cherry tree features brown, curled, holed and loss of leaves
I've noticed a significant deterioration in the health of my relatively young (~2 years) cherry tree. The leaves are turning brown, some are curled, some have holes and a number have also entirely ...
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How can we improve the soil to plant a garden where a shed once stood?
I just recently tore down a shed that had been in my backyard for the last 20-30 years. I would like to use that spot to build my garden (vegetables, herbs, etc). The problem is that a combination of ...
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What would strip the bark off a 20+ foot American Elm tree overnight?
I have a 20+ foot tall American Elm tree. I believe it was unharmed yesterday. Today the bark was stripped almost entirely around the several-inch-wide trunk and in various places up to a height of ...
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Zucchini skin disease (holes)
For several years now the zucchini in my amateur garden have always failed in the same way. The fruits start to grow but stay in an arrested development state (their size never
goes beyond 12cm, the ...
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Is this a bug on my adenium plant and what should I do?
I'm not sure what's going on with my adenium plant. But it's getting worst week by week.
It's on the balcony with direct sunlight from 11 to 16. I don't know if that stuff on the leaves is living ...
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What's this gash on a Maple tree?
What's this gash on a Maple tree?
It seems almost "infected" compared to the "normal" splitting I see on the other Maple tree right now. NOTE: It's been raining all day.
That second photo is ...
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What pesticide should I use with an Orange tree in Texas?
I've got two Orange trees and two avocado trees in my backyard. One of the orange trees looks to be the victim of a disease and has sooty mold on it. From what I have read this is usually due to ...
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What ate the leaves of my bell pepper plant?
I planted a sweet orange bell pepper plant last week in my garden bed, which was converted from a fire pit. It's only half a foot tall and hasn't flowered yet. One day, an entire leaf was chewed off. ...
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