Questions tagged [pest-control]
For questions about controlling garden pests. Use this tag with questions about how to keep identified pests at bay. For unidentified pests use the [pest] and [identification] tags. For questions about pesticides use the [pesticide] tag.
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Diatomaceous Earth, Ants and Skinks
Our lot is very sandy and has many ant colonies. We have skinks living near the house that eat the ants. I would like to:
A) keep ants out of the house
B) not harm the skinks
My plan is to dust the ...
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Help identifying this bug
I recently noticed several of these bugs on one of my backyard trees. It seemed to be feeding at a wound in the bark. It appears beetle-like with a shell covering its wings. They range in size from ...
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Pest found on sunflowers
I found some black/white dots that are on my sunflower leaves and flower. I can't tell if they are pests or infected with disease.
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Help identifying pest on indoor palm
found these under the leaves of my indoor palm, not sure if these are two type of pests or young/mature of the same one. Both the long brown ones and the small dark ones easily scraped off). Thought ...
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How to get rid of these small black bugs on gardenia
My gardenia is more than 6 months old. it was in good health.
Suddenly I noticed that the gardenia leaves are turning yellow. I thought that it was because of natural causes. So, I ignored it ...
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What caterpillar is this?
And how do I get rid of it...
The beasts are about 2 cm long.
At first I thought there was a parasite in my plants since I only saw the poppy-seed-like excrement. Until someone mentioned it was ...
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Year round pollen producers to sustain miniature pirate bugs for pest control
I would like to use miniature pirate bugs to control thrips and other potential pests in my greenhouse, they seem quite effective but I do not want the population to die off too much when there are ...
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What's going on with leaves on my avocado? help
I have an avocado plant in my outdoors, but for some time light spots appear on the leaves, and the tips dry out
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Treat thrip on houseplants
I diagnosed these little guys as thrips as you could see them and the typical silvery trails in the leaves where the immature thrip live. They had spread to the ivy and philodendron plants inside the ...
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What pest is attacking my poor Monstera Minima?
I have a beautiful Monstera minima that is being attacked by something.
what is weird - I don't see visible pests with my eyes. it looks however like something is sucking the leaves. the plan is dull ...
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What disease does my Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) have?
I got this Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) a month ago and cut it into a bonsai shape. I am new to caring for bonsais or cypresses. I was wondering what these little strings on my new plant's ...
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How to get rid of small thin worms?
I have thousands of small thin worms stuck to my outdoor windows, walls, and pavers. They are all dead. They are all in one corner of my house. I have never seen them alive. We clean then off and then ...
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High value weeds or plants that can replace the chemical treatment of pesticides and herbicides?
I'm working on a project that aims to replace (at least lower) the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides in farming with the use of high value weeds and plants that can naturally replace the ...
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What is this cluster of tiny tan eggs on my citrus tree leaf?
I have a young orange tree in my yard in southern California. It had a rough winter (lost every leaf) but it's coming back now. Today I found this cluster of eggs on one of the leaves:
The eggs are ...
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Ecologically-balanced garden: dealing with pest infestations among challenging plants
My garden has been maintained using the organic approach ever since I began caring for it in 2001. I maintain recycling garden waste (dry leaves and branches) through composting and adding Humus , ...
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Mango plant is dying
My mango plant (Mallika variety) recently had what seemed like a mealybug infestation. I applied EndAll pesticide and 70% isopropyl alcohol, and now the bugs mostly seem to be gone.
However, I notice ...
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How do I get rid of the sucking bugs eating the leaves in my garden?
I have a permaculture garden which is overrun by these red/black bugs which are killing plant leaves. How do I get rid of them, preferably without spraying pesticides?
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How do I properly cut and cultivate my lemon trees to keep them smaller?
I started growing these two lemon trees from (random storebought lemon) seeds a few years ago and they grew considerably over the last summer after putting them in larger pots.
Because I live in ...
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Insect Infestation of Chinese Elm
My Chinese elm suffers from an infestation that I am having a hard time diagnosing & treating. About a week ago, I noticed tiny, rod-shaped white spots, mostly on young leaves, which spread ...
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Magnolia leaves browning and falling
My Kay Paris Magnolia has browning leaves, which ultimately fall off. I also notice spotting on the leaves. Neighboring trees have a scale problem, but not much on this tree, which I also put white ...
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Tahitian Lime tree leaves eaten?
I got this Tahitian Dwarf Lime tree not long ago and I was surprised to find a few of the leaves being bitten. I'm not sure what to do to stop/prevent this from reocurring. Any advice?
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What is this tiny black insect found on my cacti?
I need help identifying an insect, it is very small, not much bigger than the head of a pin, it is black. It kind of resembles a slug because it has the true small antennas.
It was originally on a ...
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Symmetrical brown dots on camellia leaves
Help please. I’m located in the Pacific Northwest USA. I just noticed that much of the new growth on my (old) established camellia shrub has these odd brownish dots. Only 2-4 dots per leaf, all ...
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What is wrong with my Cordon Apple tree?
It has a white spider web like covering...
What is it and how should I treat it?
I live in the UK.
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Pests on my herbs
I have some pests all over my herbs. They were on my chilli plant too a few weeks back, and I tried spraying it with a dilute mixture of apple cider vinegar with a couple of drops of washing up liquid ...
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Very small black dots/dents in new pepper leaves
this is my first time posting here and I've scoured the internet for days. This is only a problem on the relatively new leaves on my Trinidad Scorpion and Carolina Reaper. They are small black dots ...
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Rust color spots on Tomato Leaves, and Caterpillars
I am getting these spots on tomatoes in my green house. I am in North Carolina so it is really hot. Caterpillars also have been eating the leaves. They mostly like the kale leaves though. How can ...
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Keeping aphids away from my Chamomile once they've found it
I've had good success with the Chamomile I planted in a 2 foot long windowbox and I had no pest issues before we started getting a lot of rain. I was treating them with neem oil diluted in water (1 ...
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How do I stop my carrots from sticking up too high being nibbled from the top?
I have some purple carrots and there growing excellently. But after a couple of months, they started to stick up 2-3 cm above the ground with one eaten, so I pulled them out before anymore were eaten. ...
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Brown patches on Rainier sweet cherry tree leaves
I planted this Rainier cherry tree past winter in a sunny slope in Scotts Valley, California, which is in zone 9 and located between San Jose and Santa Cruz on the central coast. It has been growing ...
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What are these black flies/gnats on my Zucchini Blossoms?
Trying to figure out what these bugs are and if they are bad for my zucchini plant. I also have a video but I can’t figure out how to post it. I will edit this with a link to it if I figure it out.
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Spots on hardy kiwi leaves
We have recently bought Ken's Red type of hardy kiwi (Actinidia Arguta) and we grow it on a balcony. Unfortunately, it has strange spots on leaves.
What could be the reason?
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Does comfrey make a great garden perimeter?
I'm into the no till side of gardening, and have heard that comfrey "grows in place". Would comfrey make a great garden perimeter plant to keep animals out by feeding them better food than the stuff ...
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Ant colony at the base of young tree
So far the tree has been doing really well. Its only a year old (chinar tree). Infact, the ants have made the heavy clay soil in which the tree was planted from dense and compacted to very porous and ...
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What plants will help with our midge and mosquito problem?
We've been here since April 2017 and after a brief respite, swarms of midges are already starting to form at the start of February.
We're in North East England near a river, nestled amongst woodland, ...
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Rat proofing lawn in the city
We live in the city and have a roughly 10' by 10' grass/dirt area. Rats are living/nesting in it and there are burrows everywhere. How can I redo the area in such a way that it's rat proof? I'm really ...
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How to control fleas in the garden?
Our garden seem to have some fleas (see pictures here: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/95248/insect-identification-question-is-this-a-flea-if-yes-what-kind). They sometimes get inside the ...
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