what is eating my zucchini leaves?
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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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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.
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Leafminers, caterpillars and cutworms are the most common leaf-eating insects that feast on gerbera daisies. Leafminers appear as tiny flies that lay their eggs on plant foliage. ... Caterpillars and cutworms feeding on the gerbera daisy will cause ragged leaves, which may distort, die and fall from the 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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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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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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Besides causing unsightly holes in cabbage leaves, the worms can eventually kill the plants by chewing away their ability to photosynthesize. Leaves with a few holes in them are perfectly edible, however, and in some European restaurants are even sought after as evidence of a truly organic salad.
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Chewed edges or holes on maple leaves are usually signs of a caterpillar pest. ... They feed in groups and can completely strip small maple trees of their leaves. Other leaf-eating bugs that infest maple trees include tiny, pear-shaped aphids, black and red boxelder bugs and bronze-colored Japanese beetles.
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Aphids are common insects that damage zinnias when they puncture the leaves and stem to feed on the sap, or juice of the plant. Other pests, such as mites and scales, also damage zinnias by feeding on the sap. Sap-sucking pests are tiny and are usually found in dense groupings on the stems or the undersides of leaves.
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Common Broccoli Pests Cabbage worms – These pests are the larvae of moths and butterflies. You may notice white or gray moths fluttering around the plant—a sure sign that you'll soon have problems with their offspring. Cabbage worms cause serious damage by feeding on broccoli leaves. Hand pick as many as you can.
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Tomato hornworms, leaf cutters and beetles will attack pepper plants and will eat holes in the foliage, as will many species of moth or butterfly larvae, slugs or snails but you should be able to find them on the leaves or stems.
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What is eating the leaves of my gooseberry bush? The leaves are being eaten by the larvae of the gooseberry sawfly. This is a very common pest on gooseberry bushes. ... A third generation of adults develop and their larvae overwinter in cocoons in the soil.
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Leaf-Eaters. Caterpillars, sawflies, leafminers, beetles, worms and other insect larvae attack various species of trees consuming their leaves. The damage caused by leaf-eating insects ranges, but in extreme circumstances defoliation may occur.
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Leaf-chewing caterpillars, snails and slugs, along with sap-sucking aphids, whiteflies and spider mites are common iris pests. Damage from chewing insects is easy to recognize. Holes in the leaves or chewed leaf margins are telltale signs of caterpillars.
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What you are seeing is the remnants of a walnut caterpillar infestation. These caterpillars are gregarious (stay together in large groups). They will eat leaves one one to three limbs of mature trees or may strip the foliage on young trees.
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Slugs and snails like areas that are moist and shady and eat irregular-shaped holes in the leaf (but not along the edges). To see of snails and slugs are your plant-eating culprits, come out at night with a flashlight and look under leaves. ... Slugs will also eat ripening fruit touching the ground.
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"Rodale's Garden Answers" provides a list of pests that can cause problems for spaghetti squash: cucumber beetles, spider mites, whiteflies, squash bugs, melon aphids, squash vine borers, and pickleworms. Cucumber beetles, both spotted and striped, cause leaves to wilt or have holes.