Slugs & Snails Target Crops: Beans, Lettuce, Cabbage, Tomatoes & Other garden plants. Damage Snails (and slugs) chew holes with smooth edges in leaves and fruits, and small seedlings can be consumed entirely. Slug and snail feeding is most intense at night or during periods of rainy weather. Prevention Wear

Stalk Borer Target Crops: Corn & Millet. Damage Stalk-borer feeding weakens plants and slows their growth. Severely damaged plants often snap off and fall over. Prevention Start checking your fields when the plants are 2 to 4 weeks old. Inter-cropping maize with non-host crops like beans. Pest & Diseases Solution

Caterpillars Target Crops: Flowers & Vegetable crops. Damage Most caterpillars cause damage by eating plant parts including foliage and flowers; either consuming the entire leaf or leaving the mid-vein. Prevention Insect barrier fabrics effectively protect plants from caterpillars. The barrier must be in place over the crop before the caterpillar eggs

Tuta Absoluta Target Crops: Flowers & Vegetable crops. Damage Tuta absoluta lives on and in the leaves, stems and flowers of plants and also in the fruit of tomatoes. Young larvae and eggs are difficult to find. Fruits show puncture marks on the surface where the larva has entered the plant.

Leaf Miner Target Crops: Flowers, Peas & Tomatoes. Damage Leaf miners cause damages such as pale blotches and tunnel on plant leaves as the larvae feed. Leaf miners are the larvae of various insects including beetles, flies and moths. Leaf miners rarely causes serious injury to a plant however, it

Spider Mites Target Crops: Flowers, Beans, Cucumbers, Peppers, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Maize  & Strawberries. Damage Spider Mites cause damage by puncturing plant cells in order to feed. Some initial signs of a spider mite infection include tiny spots or stippling on leaves (caused by feeding) and thin, silky webs surrounding the

Cutworm Target Crops:Beans, Cabbage, Maize, Lettuce & Fresh seedlings. Damage Larvae feed on roots and foliage of young plants, often girdling them at the soil line. The top of the plant is left to shrivel and die. Cutworms can crawl up plants and chew holes in the foliage that look

Diamond Back Moth (DBM) Target Crops: Cabbage, Broccoli & Cauliflower. Damage The larvae rasp holes in plant leaves that gradually enlarge to give the leaves a windowpane appearance. The caterpillars are found mostly on leaf undersides. Prevention Use protective row covers to exclude this and other pests from cabbage family

Aphids Target Crops: Legumes, Peppers, Spinach, Tomato, Cucurbits, Carrot, Lettuce, Flowers & Maize. Damage Decreased growth rates, mottled leaves, yellowing, stunted growth, curled leaves, browning, wilting, low yields and, eventually, death. Aphids can spread diseases. Prevention Check plants often for early outbreaks. Clip off and compost stems holding aphid clusters.

Nematodes Target Crops: Tomatoes, Peppers, Carrots & Vegetable crops. Damage Plants grow slowly, in erratic spurts, and are generally dwarfed in size. When you dig up a troubled tomato or pepper plant, numerous swellings and galls are evident on the roots. Because root knot nematodes don’t move far in the