[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"/blog/post/6-spring-pests-you-dont-want-on-your-plants":3,"/blog/post/6-spring-pests-you-dont-want-on-your-plants-surround":146,"/blog/post/6-spring-pests-you-dont-want-on-your-plants-related":157},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"badge":10,"body":12,"date":134,"description":135,"extension":136,"image":137,"meta":139,"navigation":140,"path":141,"seo":142,"stem":143,"tags":144,"__hash__":145},"posts/3.blog/post/6-spring-pests-you-dont-want-on-your-plants.md","6 Spring Pests You Don’t Want on Your Plants",[7],{"name":8,"to":9},"Ashley Parker","",{"label":11},"Pest & Termite Control",{"type":13,"value":14,"toc":125},"minimark",[15,19,24,34,37,44,48,56,59,62,66,74,77,81,89,93,101,105,113,116],[16,17,18],"p",{},"Whether you prefer to grow beautiful flowers and trees or a selection of your family’s favorite fruits and veggies, it takes a lot of time and effort to manage a garden. The last thing you want is a horde of these insects literally eating away at all of your hard work.",[20,21,23],"h2",{"id":22},"_1-beetles","1. Beetles",[16,25,26,33],{},[27,28],"img",{"alt":29,"className":30,"src":32},"Japanese beetles on a skeletonized leaf",[31],"rounded-lg","https://bprassets.s3.amazonaws.com/blogfiles/assets/images/post/Body%20Pics/02-23-17_images/Japanese-beetles-on-a-skeletonized-leaf.jpg","\nAlthough some beetle species are helpful to have in a garden, most mean trouble for plants.",[16,35,36],{},"Beetles thoroughly enjoy munching on leaves and other plant parts, and they’re not picky eaters—the more types of plants in your garden, the more variety in their buffet.",[16,38,39,43],{},[40,41,42],"strong",{},"Japanese beetles",", in particular, are one of the most damaging insects to plants. Adult Japanese beetles are pretty easy to spot, as they’re metallic copper and bright green, but the best indicator that they’re living in your garden is skeletonized leaves.",[20,45,47],{"id":46},"_2-slugs","2. Slugs",[16,49,50,55],{},[27,51],{"alt":52,"className":53,"src":54},"red slug on ground",[31],"https://bprassets.s3.amazonaws.com/blogfiles/assets/images/post/Body%20Pics/02-23-17_images/red-slug-on-ground.jpg","\nThere are several species of slugs, four of which are considered a threat to plants. Slugs have a taste for a wide variety of plants, especially those that produce fruits and vegetables, and their appetite extends to the root systems as well as the leaves.",[16,57,58],{},"Slugs alone are enough to destroy an entire garden.",[16,60,61],{},"These pests can quickly eat enough of a plant’s leaves and roots to prevent the plant from photosynthesizing, essentially eating the plant faster than it is capable of growing.",[20,63,65],{"id":64},"_3-caterpillars","3. Caterpillars",[16,67,68,73],{},[27,69],{"alt":70,"className":71,"src":72},"caterpiller on pink flowers",[31],"https://bprassets.s3.amazonaws.com/blogfiles/assets/images/post/Body%20Pics/02-23-17_images/caterpillar-on-pink-flowers.jpg","\nWhile butterflies are beneficial to a garden, the caterpillars that eventually turn into them are not. Caterpillars dine on leaves, flowers, fruit, and vegetables, so a garden is their version of a five-star restaurant.",[16,75,76],{},"The good news is that your garden is unlikely to retain too many caterpillar patrons due to their susceptibility to disease and the wide variety of animals that enjoy them as an appetizer. However, even just a few of these transformative insects can cause extensive damage.",[20,78,80],{"id":79},"_4-weevils","4. Weevils",[16,82,83,88],{},[27,84],{"alt":85,"className":86,"src":87},"closeup of a beetle walnut weevil on a leaf",[31],"https://bprassets.s3.amazonaws.com/blogfiles/assets/images/post/Body%20Pics/02-23-17_images/closeup-of-a-beetle-walnut-weevil-on-a-leaf.jpg","\nUnlike most pests, weevils are detrimental to plants year-round. In the spring and summer, mature weevils eat plant leaves, and their larvae devour the roots and the stem when the weather gets cooler.",[20,90,92],{"id":91},"_5-spider-mites","5. Spider Mites",[16,94,95,100],{},[27,96],{"alt":97,"className":98,"src":99},"spider mites in webbing on a tree branch",[31],"https://bprassets.s3.amazonaws.com/blogfiles/assets/images/post/Body%20Pics/02-23-17_images/spider-mites-in-webbing-on-a-tree-branch.jpg","\nSpider mites are your garden-variety vampires—they suck the chlorophyll out of a plant’s leaves. At a minimum, this will discolor the leaves. 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