Category Pests Control

Garden Slugs, are one of those difficult pests in the garden. They attack:CabbageCarrotsTurnipLettuceTomatoesStrawberries… and many other vegetables and flowers.Garden cleanliness and chemicals will help control them.These snail-like creatures, minus shells, leave a damp film of mucus wherever they travel.

The Tarnished Plant Bug (Lygus lineolaris) is a member of a very large and diverse insect family of bad garden bugs which feed on plant parts including flowers and buds.They are abundant throughout Canada and the United States.These bugs have piercing, sucking mouthparts.They feed by sucking the sap from plants.

Cyclamen Mites, belonging to the Tarsonemidae family and known by their scientific name Phytonemus pallidus (Banks), are one of the most harmful pests causing damage to foliage, buds, and blooms of various greenhouse and ornamental plants.The Cyclamen mite causes the most damage to:CyclamenStrawberryGeraniumDahliaIvyJasmineAfrican violetsGloxiniaSnapdragonLarkspurChrysanthemumBegoniaFuchsiaPetuniaNew Guinea impatiensAlso called Phytonemus pallidus, and Polyphatarsonemus latus (broad mite), these tiny arthropods with brown-orange, translucent, elliptical bodies do not grow more than 0.