Spotting and Treating Upcoming Grass Diseases

The slightly curved, lawn-damaging larvae, likewise understood as grubs, are gray-white with brown heads. Find out more about managing Japanese beetles. These gray pests are so called because they have lacelike wing covers. Lace bugs suck the sap from the undersides of fruit and decorative tree leaves, leaving the upper sides mottled with tiny, light-gray spots.

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Leafhoppers feed on a variety of edible and ornamental plants and cause leaves to lose color, turn brown and end up being stippled. They also leave behind black excrement.

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Copper in color, Mexican bean beetles have eight black areas on each wing cover. They skeletonize the leaves of beans (their preferred hosts), along with black-eyed peas, soybeans, cowpeas, mung beans, alfalfa and clover. The larvae are light yellow with a spiny appearance; the eggs are also yellow and found in clusters on leaves.

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Circular insects, scales are found on the stems of plants and the underside of leaves, and they frequently appear like a part of the plant. The protective scale-like covering of these pests may be tough and armor-like or soft and cottony. Scales suck plant sap, creating honeydew and bring in ants, which safeguard the scales from predators and require treatment as well.