Common Garden Pests, Insects, Identification, Pictures And Control

INSECT NAME	PICTURE	ATTACK	CONTROL METHOD	PURCHASE
APHID		Flowers (roses), plants	Ladybugs, malathion or diazinon	Live Ladybugs Diazinon Malathion Spray
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE		Potato, pepper, eggplant, tomato	Handpick, dust with diatomaceous earth	Diatomaceous Earth Powder
POTATO FLEA BEETLE		Vegetables	Cultivate frequently, remove weeds, sprinkle hardwood ashes on plants 2-3 times/week
WIREWORM/CLICK BEETLE		Corn, potato, beet, bean, lettuce, cabbage, carrot, onion, pea, turnip, onion, small grains, grass	Rotate crops, lure with perforated potatoes impaled on sticks and buried 2-3 cm deep; shake "worms" out of them into soapy water every few days
EUROPEAN EARWIG		Generally beneficial: eats decaying matter, insect larvae snails. etc, may attack dahlias, carnations, chrysanthemums, marigolds, food plants & strawberries	Diatomaceous earth, diluted dish detergent sprayed directly on them	Diatomaceous Earth Powder
CABBAGE MAGGOT		Cabbage family, beets, celery, turnip, broccoli, kale, cauliflower, brussels sprout	3 cm of hard wood ash in tin cans set into ground around stems
CABBAGE WORM		Cabbage, lettuce, nasturtium, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, turnip, brussels sprout	Diatomaceous earth, handpick, sprinkle moist plants with wood ash, flour and salt mixture, sour milk or garlic infusion, Dipel®	Diatomaceous Earth Powder Dipel Dust
CORN EARWORM		Corn, tomato, bean, pepper, lettuce, eggplant, pea, potato, squash	Dipel®, black light traps, dust with diatomaceous earth	Diatomaceous Earth Powder Insect 110V Black Light
CUTWORM		Broccoli, brussels sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, radish, turnip, corn, tomato, bean, pepper, squash	7-10 cm collars of cardboard, tin can or foil placed around plant stem when transplanting (at least 5 cm above and 3 cm below ground, handpick, Dipel®	Dipel Dust
EASTERN TENT CATERPILLAR		Leaves of Wild cherry, wild plum, apple and other orchard and shade trees	In spring, wipe newly spun webs off branches with kerosene-soaked cloth (not lit!) - in fall or winter, destroy egg-cases and cocoons
EUROPEAN CORN BORER		Corn, eggplant, pepper, beet, bean, potato, tomato, chrysanthemum, dahlia, gladiolus	Handpick, Dipel®, turn stems/stalks under in fall or shred and turn under in early spring	Dipel Dust
JAPANESE BEETLE		A wide variety of plant roots including ornamental trees and shrubs, garden and truck crops, and turf grasses	Traps	Japanese Beetle Trap
TOMATO HORNWORM		Tomato, pepper, eggplant, potato	Handpick, repel with marigold, borage and parsley as companion plants
SPINACH LEAF MINER		Spinach, sugar beet, chard, lettuce, carrot, celery, parsnip, celery	Pick off affected leaves and burn or compost them, plant usually recovers, heavy watering, repelled by Queen Anne's lace, dill and parsley
SLUG		Broccoli, brussels sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, radish, turnip. potato, lettuce	Diatomaceous earth on leaves, use strips of aluminum screening about 3 inches high, unweave the top two horizontal strands from one long edge and bend the exposed vertical strands to face outward The bottom edge is pushed about 1 inch into the soil.	Diatomaceous Earth Powder
SQUASH BUG		Squash, pumpkins	Sevin	Sevin
STRIPED CUCUMBER BEETLE		Cucumber, squash, melons, pumpkin, beans,	Rotenone, Sevin, natural predators include soldier beetles, tachinid flies, braconid wasps and certain nematodes	Sevin Rotenone

Common Garden Insects, Pictures, Habits And Control