Common Vermont garden pests: bad bugs, septoria leaf spot, brown mold, bud rot, white powdery mildew and beneficial insect partners

Vermont's best garden service near Mancheter VT offers a Pest management consultation at your garden site to help you with all your garden needs.

This is Squash borer damage on a Zucchini plant

BAD BUGS SQUASH BORER

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    SQUASH BORER EGGS

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    SQUASH BORER LARVA

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    SQUASH BORER ADULT

Vermont's best garden service near Mancheter VT offers a Pest management consultation at your garden site to help you with all your garden needs.

Squash borers kill zucchini plants

SQUASH BEETLE BUG

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    SQUASH BUG DAMAGE

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    SQUASH BEETLE NYMPH

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    SQUASH BEETLE ADULT

LEAF HOPPER

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    LEAF HOPPER DAMAGE

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    LEAF HOPPER

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    LEAF HOPPER CONTROL

CABBAGE BUTTERFLY

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    CABBAGE WORM

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    CABBAGE BUTTERFLY

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    SPRAY BOTTLE WINS!

SEPORTIA & BROWN MOLD BUD ROT

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    SEPTORIA LEAF SPOT

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    SEPORTIA LEAF SPOT

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    BROWN MOLD BUD ROT

WPM= WHITE POWDERY MILDEW

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    WPM ON A LILAC HOST

  • Common Vermont garden pests

    WHITE POWDERY MILDEW

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    WPM at a BOX STORE NURSERY!!! BEWARE

A COUPLE SPRAY TREATMENTS

  • Common Vermont garden pests treatments

    BUG SPRAY DILUTED ALCOHOL

  • Common Vermont garden pests treatments

    BT CATIPILLAR SPRAY

  • WPM treatment

    KNF LAB = LACTOBACILLUS MICROBES

BENEFICIAL INSECT PARTNERS

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    ADULT LADY BUGS

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    LADY BUG LARVA

  • Beneficial insect partners

    LADY BUG LARVA

BENEFICIAL INSECT PARTNERS

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    PRAYING MANTIS

  • Beneficial insect partners

    PRAYING MANTIS

  • Beneficial insect partners

    PRAYING MANTIS EGG CASE

BENEFICIAL INSECT PARTNERS

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    PARASITIC WASP ADULT

  • Beneficial insect partners

    PARASITIC WASP LARVA

  • Beneficial insect partners

    KILL TOMATO HORN WORMS

INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (IPM)

1. Identify and monitor the pest 2. Implement an action or treatment either mechanical or biological (not chemical ) 3. Evaluate success and plan a preventative action for the next grow.

You will have all these pests without question because they are widely abundant in Vermont! Some you need to battle every year BUT all may be managed without using chemicals.

I can help! With a pest management consultation. I will teach you how to deal with all common pests! The primary actions I will teach you include: handpicking, traps, pruning, biological foliar sprays (LAB lactobacillus, BT bacillus thuringensis), how to attract, stock and keep beneficial insect partners to kill bad bugs. During our visit, we will begin the battle with whatever you have or apply preventative measures like stocking predatory nematodes for squash borers or foliar sprays for caterpillars. Dealing with pests is part of gardening, I can teach you to manage them. Please see prices for details.