Common Garden Pests - Garden Plants and Their Problems

Garden Plants and Their Problems

ENEMY	DAMAGE	CONTROL
Crabapple
Cedar-apple	Bechtel's and other native	Spray with sulfur-fermate;
rust	crabapples weakened,	remove galls from juniper
	branches dying.	host; use Asiatic varieties.
Fire blight	Branches dying back.	Cut out well below dying
		part.
See Apple for other pests
Crapemyrtle
Crapemyrtle	Shoots infested early spring,	Spray with nicotine-soap or
aphid	sooty mold grows in honey-	other contact spray.
	dew.
Powdery	White growth on young	Lime-sulfur 1 to 80 when
mildew	leaves, which are thick;	buds break; sulfur spray or
	buds do not grow.	dust later.
Crassula
Mealybugs	Stems and leaves some-	Keep washed off; spray
	times covered with white	with Volck or try DX Aero
	oval bugs.	Spray.
Mites	Leaves rusty brown, rough.	Spray with Aramite or
		Malathon.
Cucumber
Striped cucum-	Yellow beetles with black	Start plants under Hot-
ber beetle	stripes feed on foliage,	kaps, later dust with rote-
	transmit bacterial wilt.	none.
Spotted cucum-	Greenish, with 12 black	Start plants under Hot-
ber beetle	spots, feeds on young	kaps, later dust with rote-
	plants.	none.
Pickleworm	Small white to green cater-	Dust with rotenone.
	pillars feed in fruit; in
	South.
Bacterial wilt	Plants wilt and die.	Control beetles; can add
		Zerlate to rotenone dust.
Anthracnose	See Cantaloupe.
Downy mildew	See Cantaloupe.
Mosaic	Leaves mottled, plants	Control aphids transmit-
	stunted; fruit poor.	ting virus; destroy peren-
		nial weeds.