If you have a beautifully decorated garden, you will definitely love to keep it free of pests, as these are extremely harmful to your plants. A good hang of the harmful garden pests helps in identifying them and taking immediate against the same. Take a look at some common and harmful garden pests.
Spider Mites
These pests are found on the underside of the leaves. Dry, hot and dusty condition is suitable for their breeding. They build up colonies and create a silk protection around it. They damage the cells of the plants and create a stippled or silvering effect on the same. These pests make feast on a number of plants, thereby causing massive damage to your garden. They also feed on the houseplants.
Scales
Scales suck sap from their host plants. A waxy coating, which is secreted by them, makes them look like fish scales. They infest your garden by making huge colonies even before you realize what has gone wrong with your plants. They are very harmful for your plants’ health and seek refuge in their waxy protection when insecticides are used.
Leafminer
Leafminers often refer to different insects living in garden though the commonest of them is the larvae of the tiny files. These feed on the leaf tissues and build up visible channels between the two sides of the leaves. There are two ways to get rid of them – either by attracting natural parasites or planting trap crops.
Thirps
These fringe-winged insects make a feast on a wider variety of plants. They wreck havoc on your garden by causing discoloration and deformities that result in reduced sale of the crops. More often, they are the prime reason for several plant diseases. What is more, they transmit more than 20 infectious diseases that damage and destroy the plants.
Mealybugs
They thrive in both warm and moist climates. They suck juices from the plants. They release a powder-like wax to protect themselves while sucking juice. They are often the sole reason for heavy damages to plants including mango, pineapple, sugarcane, grapes, mulberry, papaya, orchids, sunflower and many more. Their harmful activities increase manifolds in presence of ants that protect the mealybugs from parasites and predators.
Aphids
They are called plant lice. They are small pests feeding on plant sap. They usually congregate on the tips of the new leaves and the undersides of the stems. The sap-sacking pests cause damages to the leaves by turning them yellowish.
Aphids and Ants share a symbiotic relationship between them. The aphids secrete honeydew that is extracted by the ants and in exchange, they protect the former. It results into growth of black sooty fungus on leaves. Due to their rapid rate of reproduction, the aphids pose a greater threat to your plants. They are one of the leading causes of several plant diseases.
Whiteflies
These live on the undersides of the plant stems and leaves. They are a menace to the plants and often cause heavy damages to the agricultural crops throughout the world. They usually wreak havoc on the flower plants.
It is not easy to control these menacing garden pests, as they are immune to many chemical pesticides. Therefore, a well-planned biological control method is often the only way to achieve success against them. For Best Pest Control, always contract a professional service provider.