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Pests A-C | Pests D-G | Pests H-N | Pests O-S

This is the fifth and final page of insect pests and organic remedies to deal with them.

These topics will be beneficial to read also.

What To Look for: Diseases

What To Look for: Pest Management Practices

Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Organic Pest Remedies

tanish plant bug, Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org Tarnished Plant Bug Feeds on most garden crops.

The adult and nymph suck juices, causing bud dropping, wilting, stunting and dieback.

Attack native predatory bugs, destroy all crop debris, and minute pirate bugs.


termites Termite You may need to consult a professional on this pest.

There may be one in your area that uses organic control and eradication methods.


thrips, Smaller, tan thrips on left is the onion thrips. Larger yellowish thrips on the right is the western flower thrips .. Alton N. Sparks, Jr., University of Georgia, Bugwood.org Thrips, thunderflies, thunder bug These usually attack already dry, stressed plants.

blacklegged tick, from Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org Tick Can lay up to 3,000 eggs in her lifetime.

Young offspring are key links in the transmission of Lyme disease, a flu-like illness in humans that can become chronic and progressive if not treated.

Learn more about lyme disease and other lyme disease topics.


tobacco horn worm Tobacco Horn Worms Also Tomato Horn Worms, they feed on leaves, stems, and fruits. Will kill young plants.

Control by hand-picking or release beneficial wasps.



tree borer Tree Borers Trees infected are peach, cherry, plum, nectarine, and apricot.

The larvae enter roots and feed on growing tissue and inner bark.

Control by using beneficial insects. Make the soil healthier by mulching the root system area of trees (located at the drip line).


walking stick, A. Steven Munson, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org Walkingstick The Phasmatodea, also called Phasmida, are an order of insects whose members are diversely known in Europe as stick insects, in the United States as walking sticks or stick-bugs, phasmids, ghost insects and leaf insects.

Their natural camouflage can make them very difficult to see.

They show rocking behavior in which the insect makes rhythmic, repetitive side-to-side motions.

Walking sticks are primary consumers of plants.


fall webworm, photo from Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org Webworms An enemy to trees by building huge webs and defoliating the leaves.

Use native or trichogramma wasps.

Spray Bt (Bacillus thuringeinsis) with a teaspoon soap per gallon at dusk.


whiteflies Whiteflies The whitefly sucks the sap from house plants, garden flowers, vegetables, and even weeds, causing the plants to be distorted.

Green lacewings or garlic-pepper tea will control these pests.
Pests A-C | Pests D-G | Pests H-N | Pests O-S

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