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Home > Pest Problem Solver Guide > Lawn & Landscape Pests


Lawn & Landscape Pests

In this section you identify pests that harm lawns, shrubbery and other plants and landscaping.


Ants
Ants

Can damage plants through nest-building, which can damage roots, soil structure and even kill the plants.

Aphids
Aphids

Soft-bodied insects that use their piercing sucking mouthparts to feed on plant sap.

Bean Thrips
Bean Thrips

When infested with thrips the leaves of the plant will appear brownish and/or silvery.

Beet Armyworm
Beet Armyworm

Damage is often characterized by skeletonization and profuse silk webbing.

Black Vine Weevil
Black Vine Weevil

The larvae feed on the roots of plants and cause more serious damage than the adults.

Broccoli Worms
Broccoli Worms

Also known as the Imported Cabbage Worm.

Black Scale
Black Scale

Scale are small parasitic insects that feed on plant juices.

Cabbage Butterfly
Cabbage Butterfly

Also called the Imported Cabbageworm.

Chinch Bug
Chinch Bug

Attacks drought-stressed lawns and wild grasses by piercing the plant with its four-jointed beak and sucking out sap.

Click Beetle
Click Beetle

These pests eat the roots of numerous plant species and young trees.

Cutworm
Cutworm

Cutworms feed on fruit trees and many other plants including garden vegetables and field crops.

Diamond Back Moth
Diamond Back Moth

The larvae attack cabbage, collards, greenhouse plants, and some ornamentals.

Fall Armyworm
Fall Armyworm

Feeds primarily on corn but also feeds on cotton, alfalfa, clover, peanuts, grasses, tobacco and many garden crops.

Fire Ants
Fire Ants

Fire ant colonies consist of the eggs, larvae and pupae and several castes of adults.

Flying Aphids
Flying Aphids

Large numbers of aphids on plants can cause wilting from removal of sap and the spreading of plant viruses.

Fungus Gnats
Fungus Gnats

Symptoms of fungus gnat infestation are sudden wilting, poor growth, yellowing, and foliage loss.

Grubs
Grubs

Damage results from larvae feeding on roots.

Grasshoppers
Grasshoppers

Some species occur in very large numbers and cause serious crop damage and loss of plants in pastures.

Harlequin Bugs
Harlequin Bugs

They attack nearly all vegetables of the mustard family, especially mustard greens and various cabbages.

Iris Borer
Iris Borer

Iris borers are the most damaging pest of irises. They will attack all varieties of irises.

Japanese Beetle
Japanese Beetle

Feed on over 275 plant species including deciduous tree fruits, many small fruits, vegetables and grasses.

Leafhopper
Leafhopper

Leafhoppers are one of the most abundant groups of plant feeding insects.

Leafminer
Leafminer

Many insects can be leafminers, including some flies, beetles, moths, and wasps.

Leafroller
Leafroller

Young larvae feed on flat leaves, but older larvae fold the leaves in half and hold them together with webbing.

May Bugs
May Bugs

Also known as May beetles, June bugs and June beetles.

Northern Masked Chafer
Northern Masked Chafer

The destructive grubs eat the roots of turf on golf courses and lawns.

Oleander Scale
Oleander Scale

Can be controlled by natural enemies and does not usually cause economic damage.

Orange Tortrix
Orange Tortrix

The orange tortrix feeds primarily on blackberry, dewberry, raspberry and grapes.

Oriental Beetle
Oriental Beetle

The larvae stage damages plant roots and lawns. The adult stage damages roses squash and other plants.

Puncturevine - Goathead - Texas Sandbur
Puncturevine - Goathead - Texas Sandbur

Use these natural herbicides or our biological control solution.

Slugs
Slugs

Slugs feed on plant leaves and can be a nuisance in gardens. They love to eat tender new growth on plants.

Snails
Snails

Like slugs, the common garden snail will chew through young plants and stems on your garden.

White Grubs
White Grubs

Destructive pest of lawns and other turf.



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