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To know HOW fo fight insect pests you first have to RECOGNIZE them. The 
pictures below will help you in identifying the various sucking and chewing 
insects which will attack your garden. The following list tells you the vegetables 
and the insects which most commonly attack them. 
ASPARAGUS—The Asparagus Beetle. CARROTS, CELERY—Carrot 
BEANS—Mexican Bean Beetle Aphids.  Tyers. 
Leaf Hoppers. Red Spider Mites. CORN—Corn Borer. Ear Worm. 
BEETS, CHARD and SPINACH—Aphids. CUCURBITS (VINE PLANTS)—Melon Aphid. 
Spinach Flea Beetle, Spinach Leaf Miner. Striped Cucumber Beetle. 12 Spotted Cu- 
CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER, BROCCOLI, cumber Beetle. Squash Vine Borer. Squash 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS—Cabbage Worm. Cab- °F Stink Bug. 
bage Looper. Root Maggots. Aphids, ONIONS—tThrips. Onion Maggot. 
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OF GARDEN. ENEMIES: 
2 SUCKING INSECTS 
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CHINCH BUG, 
3/16" 
RED SPIDER 
MITE, 1/60" 
TARNISHED 
PLANT BUG, 1/4" 
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GLADIOLUS MELON APHID, CABBAGE SQUASH BUG, 
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CABBAGE 
WORM, 1" 
STRIPED CUCUMBER SPOTTED CUCUMBER 
BEETLE, 1/4" BEETLE, '/o° 
ROOT MAGGOT, 
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BEETLE, 7/32" 
TOMATO HORN 
WORM, 3" - 4" 
SQUASH VINE 
BORER, '/2" 
CUT WORM, 
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FLEA BEETLE 
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CORN BORER, 
BEETLE, 5/16" 1" 
CABBAGE 
LOOPER, 1'/2" 
CARROT 
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LETTUCE—6 Spotted Leaf Hopper. 
PEAS—Pea Aphid. 
POTATO, TOMATO, EGGPLANT, PEPPER— 
Aphid. Colorado Potato Beetle, Flea Beetle. 
Leaf Hopper. Tomato Horn Worm. Tomato 
Fruit Worm, (This is the corn ear worm.) 
Cut worm, 
WHAT THEY DO 
APHID—Sucks. Colors and sizes varied. 
Found on under side of leaf and on stems. 
Soft-bodied, wingless—also with long, nar- 
row transparent wings 3 times as long as its 
body. Causes discoloring or curling of 
leaves. 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE—Gnaws shoots and 
feeds on foliage. 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE—Chews. 8 black 
spots on each wing, Spiny larvae skeleton- 
izes leaves, 
CABBAGE WORM—Velvety green with yel- 
low stripes. Chews holes in leaves. 
CABBAGE LOOPER—Pale green with white 
stripes along sides. Chews. 
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE—Lays yel- 
lowish orange eggs in groups of 20-30 on 
underside of leaves. 5 yellow and 5 black 
stripes on each wing. Chews. 
CUCUMBER BEETLE—Yellow with 3 black 
stripes on back, Chews. 
CUT WORM—Cuts off plants at soil level. 
Found within 8''-10"’ radius of plant, about 
an inch below ground surface. Dull colored, 
variably-striped. Curled up. Chews, 
CARROT WEEVIL—Chews. Legless, brown 
headed grub, Tunnels into crown of plant, 
filled with a sawdust like material or sealed 
up with black exudate to hide eggs. 
CODLING MOTH—Pinkish white, brown- 
headed worms eat holes from side or blos- 
som end of apple to core. 
CORN BORER—Chews. Found on under 
side of leaves. Flat masses of pearly white 
eggs, overlapping like scales and pinkish 
worms 1"' long with dark heads. 
CORN EAR WORM—Chews. Green to 
brownish, with white stripes along sides. 
Found in silk end of ear. 
FLEA BEETLE—Chews. Shiny, black, round 
beetle. Chews sieve-like holes. 
LEAF-HOPPER—Sucks, Found on under 
side of leaves. Pale green. Slender winged, 
wedge shaped, Gives leaf tips scorched 
appearance, puckering. 
TOMATO HORN WORM—Chews. Large 
green worm with yellow markings and 
prominent horn-like projection at rear. 
THRIPS—Sucks. Tiny yellow or brownish 
slender bodied, pointed at both ends. Nar- 
row plume-like wings, Nymphs wingless, 
same size and shape, but watery white with 
bright red eyes. 
ROOT MAGGOT—Chews. Causes pale yel- 
lowish green plants that wilt and die. 
Check dirt at roots for white legless worm 
or elongated white eggs. 
RED SPIDER MITE—Sucks. Found at apple 
blossom time on under side of leaves, 8 
legged, very tiny, reddish, whitish, green- 
ish mite, Causes yellow or brown blotches 
on leaves with powdery appéarance on 
under side. 
SQUASH OR STINK BUG—Sucks. Egg clus- 
ters of 25-50 reddish brown eggs found on 
under side of leaves, Bug flat, brownish 
and stinking, 
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