what could be eating my morning glory leaves?
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The leaf miner drills tunnels into the leaves of the plant. A green caterpillar called a leafcutter feeds at night and severs the stem of the morning glory and a golden tortoise beetle makes small to medium holes in the foliage. If your morning glory plant is not treated for pests, they will eventually attack the vine.
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It Might be Rose Sawfly. Rose sawfly (sometimes called rose slug) larvae are a common pest of roses. The early feeding damage causes “windowpanes” of transparent leaf tissue on the leaf as the larvae feed on the surface of the leaf.
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Slugs. Slugs can cause damage by eating the edges of the leaves of laurel. The damage is superficial and will not harm the overall health of the plant.
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Holes in the leaves This is usually caused by caterpillars – there is a moth that can appear about August or September that will chew the leaves of the zonals which needs catching in the evenings or eradicating with a systemic insecticide. Geraniums are rarely affected by slugs and snails.
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Impatiens downy mildew is caused by a fungus-like (Oomycete) organism that causes yellowing leaves, leaf loss, and death of bedding Impatiens, commonly called busy Lizzies, during wet weather and damp conditions.
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Examine houseplants carefully before bringing them indoors. A sharp water spray helps dislodge many potential pests, such as spider mites. Your peace lilies, however, likely harbor slugs, which chew substantial holes in foliage. Slugs hide in soil and leaf litter and come out at night to feed, leaving slime behind.
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Chewed Blossoms and Leaves: Several pests chew flowers and leaves – from Fuller rose beetles that leave ragged edges on leaves to leafcutter bees that cut semicircular holes. Rose slugs look like tiny caterpillars, but are the sluglike larva of a sawfly. ... The white larvae can kill canes or an entire plant.
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The most common culprits that cause sticky Schefflera leaves are aphids, mites or mealybugs. If you have an ant problem in the house, you may also notice ants in and around the plant. This is because ants “farm” aphids to keep them around for the honeydew, which is an ant food favorite.
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The physical damage to your leaves could be caused by chewing insects, such as caterpillars or slugs, or mammals, such as chipmunks, groundhogs, voles, rabbits, or deer. It could also be a combination of insect and mammal feeding damage.
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['Sunflower Beetles – Sunflower beetles typically feed on the leaf foliage and in small numbers or older plants may seldom hurt the plants. ... ', 'Cutworms – Cutworms can also damage the leaves of young sunflowers, leaving notches or holes.']
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There are several possibilities for the damage you see, most likely either snails, slugs, earwigs or birds. Soil and plant moisture levels from all the rain we've had right now favor the likelihood of snail, slug or earwig. These pests are night feeders.
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Caterpillars, earwigs, Fuller rose beetles, June beetles and snails all chew avocado leaves. However, what you have described to me sounds mostly like grasshoppers damage. They feed on the young avocado foliage, chewing irregular areas from the leaves.
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Plants can be infected with virus, which may be indicated by distorted foliage, or a yellow streaking, or mosaic pattern on the leaves. There is no cure for viruses and infected plants should be destroyed. Other problems include usual garden pests such as glasshouse red spider mite, aphids, slugs and snails.
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Holes in Basil Leaves and Basil Pests When gaps or holes in basil leaves have been discovered, the time for action is now! The most frequent assaulters of your precious basil plant leaves are Japanese beetles, slugs and aphids.
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Answer. This is mysterious. Most fungal diseases found on hydrangeas cause leaf spotting on the foliage rather than the stems, so I suspect that the white spots could be the eggs of a sap-sucking scale insect called Pulvinaria hydrangeae, or hydrangea scale. This limpet-like insect also feeds on acers and cherries.
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Just Bad Bugs Those holes around the edges of leaves might be caused by cutting insects -- slugs, Fuller rose beetles, leafrollers and Amobia caterpillars. Slugs and rose beetles are ground dwellers that eat holes in leaves. Leafrollers weaken leaves so they roll up.
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Grubs can become a nuisance in lawns and gardens, eating the roots and bulbs of grass and flowers, causing damage and leaving plants susceptible to moisture stress. As grubs complete their life cycle in early to mid-June, they transform into beetles that cause additional harm by eating ornamental flowers and bushes.