what could be eating my broccoli leaves?
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Common Broccoli Pests Cabbage worms – These pests are the larvae of moths and butterflies. You may notice white or gray moths fluttering around the plant—a sure sign that you'll soon have problems with their offspring. Cabbage worms cause serious damage by feeding on broccoli leaves. Hand pick as many as you can.
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A: That's the work of flea beetles, the bane of eggplants. Flea beetles are tiny black bugs that chew holes in leaves like someone peppered them with miniature buckshot. They'll attack mustard, radishes and sometimes cole crops, but eggplant is their favorite. At least it is in my garden.
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If you see holes in your camellia leaves, the likely suspects are twofold: the black vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, or the cranberry rootworm beetle, Rhabdopterus picipes. The adult beetles feed primarily at night while their larvae feed on the root system, making them difficult to identify and control.
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Leafminers are tiny black flies with yellow spots that often chew holes in cole crop leaves. Hand pick beetles and caterpillars off kale leaves as needed. ... Young kale seedlings are especially susceptible to beetle and caterpillar attacks. Spray kale with an organic insecticide in the event of heavy infestations.
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As adult "beetles", vine weevils will eat the edges of leaves. This attack disfigures the leaves but healthy plants, trees and shrubs will recover from this damage. However the grubs eat the roots and even sometimes the main stem of plants which, if left untreated, is often fatal.
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In general, broccoli is safe to eat, and any side effects are not serious. The most common side effect is gas or bowel irritation, caused by broccoli's high amounts of fiber. "All cruciferous vegetables can make you gassy," Jarzabkowski said. "But the health benefits outweigh the discomfort."
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Essentially when bugs are eating hostas, slugs or snails are usually to blame. These nighttime foragers are probably considered the most common of hosta pests, eating small holes in the leaves. ... Nematodes, which are microscopic roundworms, typically cause disease by infecting hosta plants much like fungi or bacteria.
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Cabbage maggots, harlequin beetles, flea beetles and other pests infest radishes, eating holes in their leaves, stems and roots. ... Although most people only eat radish roots, the leaves are also edible.
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['Insects. Aphids. Caterpillars. Cutworms. Grasshoppers and locusts. Thrips. Weevils. Whiteflies. Mites. Tomato russet mite on tomatoes. Two-spotted mite or red spider mite.', 'Other pests. Snails and slugs. Slaters.', 'Unfamiliar pests.']
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Pests on Collard Greens A few bugs enjoy eating their way through the leaves of collards. ... Pests include aphids, cabbage worms and the harlequin bug. Aphids are usually small, brown bugs that gather on the underside of the plant's leaves. There are three types of cabbage worms.
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There are few bugs that eat bay leaves, in part because of their intense foliar oil. ... The primary foliar pests on bay trees are aphids and psyllids. Aphids are soft bodied insects that may be brown, black, white, green or even red.
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Leaf-chewing caterpillars, snails and slugs, along with sap-sucking aphids, whiteflies and spider mites are common iris pests. Damage from chewing insects is easy to recognize. Holes in the leaves or chewed leaf margins are telltale signs of caterpillars.
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If it starts to become limp, it's past its prime time, and it's up to you if you want to cook it or discard it. Same thing when the florets turn yellow. It's not bad in a way that it will make you sick, but its taste won't be that great. If there are some small black or brown spots on the broccoli head, cut them out.
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Caterpillars. ... Lantana is no stranger to caterpillars and foliage miner larvae and both pests will cause varying degrees of leaf damage. Foliage-feeding caterpillars munch on the lantana's foliage, chewing holes through the leaves. In extreme infestations, foliage-feeding caterpillars can defoliate entire plants.
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There's almost nothing a slug won't eat, including tomatoes. If you spot neat little scoops taken out of ripe fruit or slime trails across a tomato plant's leaves, the culprit is likely these, nocturnal, snail-like creatures. ... As plants near maturity, they can be attacked by hornworms.
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The majority of pests that eat spinach are leaf-eating insects. Cutworms, cabbage loopers, corn earworms, snails, slugs and diamondback moth caterpillars are all common pests of spinach. Symptoms are irregularly shaped holes on either the leaf margins or in the middle of the leaves.
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A number of insect pests will feed on clematis leaves and damage them, including earwigs and the caterpillars of various moths. If the young leaves appear distorted or torn and are full of small, brown-edged holes then the likely culprits may be capsid bugs. Slugs and snails are also common pests of clematis leaves.