4 Harmful Insects You Must Get To Know To Protect Your Home Vegetable Garden by
Michael Podlesny
In our last article and podcast we talked about insects
that were beneficial to your home vegetable garden. Unfortunately not all
insects are good, in fact most are bad. They will eat your vegetables, destroy
the stems, tear up the leaves and even worse, bore themselves into the plants
you are trying to grow.
You can arm yourself to protect your garden if
you can identify them and come up with a remedy before the harmful insect
problem turns into a complete infestation. Here are four common harmful insects
that you will encounter in most home vegetable
gardens.
Aphids
These bugs are the most common and with good
reason. They eat everything! Nothing is immune from an aphid. They come in a
wide range of colors and sizes but are in large part all shaped the same, sort
of pear-like. Aphids will form their population on one plant and when that
population in
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