How to: Manage Onion Fly Maggots in Your Garden
The adult onion fly resembles the house fly, but smaller. The larvae are legless and creamy-white and will cause the plants to wilt and die.
The adult onion fly resembles the house fly, but smaller. The larvae are legless and creamy-white and will cause the plants to wilt and die.
Squash vine borers are one of the most deadly pests for your squash plants that you can encounter! They can cause sudden death for your squash plants extremely fast! They are one that you definitely want to be on the lookout for and doing everything you can do to prevent these pests from entering into your garden.
Hang out with Carrie in this video as she discusses the many ways to go about both preventing squash vine borers and treating your squash plants once you have an issue.
Squash bugs are my nemesis in the garden! They can transfer diseases and cause your once amazing-looking squash plants to die suddenly!
Learn several tips and tricks for how to handle these nasty squash bug pests in your garden in this video!
These soil-dwelling pests, also known in their adult form as click beetles, attacks the plants soon after germination. It is important to treat for wireworms before it gets out of hand.
There are many species of root maggots. Root maggots come from dark green-black fly that look like small houseflies. These flies lay their eggs in the roots of your plants. These maggots are very small, yellow-white larvae with pointed heads.
These small rodents can create quite a challenge in your garden. They create tunneling systems and eat roots along with shrubs and vegetables.
Thrips are tiny straw-colored insects with two pairs of wings. They can damage plants by sucking out their juices causing discoloration and even death!
These small rodents can be challenging and can destroy a garden! Voles (Field Mice) are usually first spotted by their ~3-inch holes they make in raised beds. Once you see these, it’s time to get into action before they get out of hand.
Cutworms are the caterpillar of a brown or gray night-flying moth. The caterpillars are black, gray, or brown and are about an inch and a half long. These jerks can go through your entire garden of new seedlings extremely quickly! It’s important to watch out for them in your garden and do your best to protect again them. They look like little brown worms, and they like to spin around into circles around the plant, cutting it off at the base.