Garden Pests can be a lot of trouble to the gardener and those who have allotments. Keeping them at bay and away from the plants can be hard work especially on a budget.
Do you know every type of garden pest out there? Here we list them all. How many do you know? Find out which pest attacks what plant.
Ants
Ants can be a pest in the garden as they are in nests up to thousands. They tend to go on the search for aphids looking for the honey dew which the aphids have left behind from excretion. Ants tend to build there nests near flower beds which they can cause damage to the roots when they are tunneling underneath them.
Aphids
Aphids are more commonly known as black fly and green fly. They can cause a lot of damage to plants, flowers, vegetables. There are many species of aphids out there but they all tend to do the same thing – suck the sap out. Causing damage to the plants including leaf curl and affecting young shoots.
Apple Aphids
There is a few species of aphids that attack Apple and Pear trees. The small shiny black eggs are visible on the branches in Autumn. You need to stop these from hatching in the spring and affecting the leafs and buds
Black Bean Aphids
These are found on the tops of any types of beans and spinach especially broad beans. You find the similar types of aphids appear on Rhubarb, Dahlias and Nasturtiums.
Cabbage or Mealy Aphids
These attack all types of brassicas but are more commonly known to attack Brussels Sprouts and cabbages. You need to get on top of these as soon as you spot them.
Root Aphis
These mainly affect winter and autumn lettuces. You will be able to sport this by the plant starting to wilt. Try to stop them before they take over.
Rose Aphis (greenfly)
These greenflies often attack the rose buds and the leaves. When they attack they will cause stunted growth to the rose.
Wooly Aphis
Wooly Aphids will often attack Apple Trees and Crab apples trees. You will notice a white wooly mark on the trees this will often leave the tree looking deformed or stunted.
Aphids under glass
Aphids under glass will often gather faster than outside due to the warmth. Controlling these will tend to be the same as outside.
Cockchafers
Adult and baby beetles can cause lots of damage to plants especially the leaves on trees and shrubs. The larve can damage the roots on plants, fruits and vegetables. You can often find the white larvae in the soil. When you are digging over the soil and raking it the larvae can be picked out.
Flee Beetles
These beetles are black and yellow in colour and they attack vegetables. They like to damage brassica plants by creating holes in them. They can also damage a whole seed bed by chewing off all the shoots at ground level.
Raspberry Beetle
The Raspberry adult beetle tends to make his appearance in May. They eat the flower buds on raspberries, loganberries and cultivated blackberries. They also lay their eggs on them. The larvae of the beetles will eat on the fruit. This can cause maggots in the fruit.
Capsid Bugs
They are a large family of of insects that like to suck and attack fruit trees.
Apple Capsid Bug
These insects are related to the green fly. They hatch out usually around April and May and like to feed on the sap of the foliage. They do not like to be in clusters like the aphids.After the petels have blossomed they like to puncture the apples causing brown marks on them.
Bishop Bug
These bugs affect chrysanthemums, zinnias and dahlias by infesting the flowers, leaves and buds.They have a pattern on their back like bishop’s mitre
Common Green Capsid Bug
These bugs like to affect berry bushes and plants by leaving holes in the leaves. The affect current bushes, gooseberries, Blackberries,cherries, raspberries and strawberries.
Caterpillars
Caterpillars obviously change into moths which then don’t affect the plants. However the caterpillars do.They like to feed on the foliage , roots and bark on a wide range of crops. Caterpillars hatch from eggs in the spring time and they get to eating straight away.
Buff-tip moth
These caterpillers are black headed with an orange stripe down there bodies. These tend to hatch out on cherry trees in particular. They love to eat in July and August so watch out for these and pick them off.
Cabbage Moth
The cabbage moth can be green. brown or grey when they are a caterpillar. They feed on the hearts and leaves of cabbages in the early summer. If you are not careful they could completely destroy and strip the plants. They do like to attack all types of brassica plants.
Codling Moth
Cutworms
Pea Moth
Swift Moth
Tortrix Moth
Vapour Moth
Winter Moth
Cuckoo-spit insects
Earwigs
Eelworms
Strawberry Eelworm
