Swoboda Posts Tagged ‘aphids’
Mantis and Pest Control – Bryan & College Station
Late summer and early fall are the times of the year where you find praying mantis around your garden. Mantis are wonderful pest control for food crops, but they are generalist. This means they tend to eat whatever they can catch. Surprisingly, their diet includes hummingbirds, snakes, lizards, and insects. If you have garden pests […]
Aphids in Bryan – How to Deal with Infestations
Aphids are well known as plant pests. They eat sap of vegetable plants, flowers, and even roses. However, an aphid pest problem might not be solely due to the aphids. Ants farm aphids much the same way that we farm cattle. The ants protect the aphids from predators in exchange for sugar water which ants […]
Many insects eat plants; a handful of those insects are also household pests. Phytogagy (‘fight-oh- fage-E’) insects are those that eat plants and they can be very destructive. This article focuses on five types of phytophagous insects that are also pests around your home. Grasshoppers and Locusts: Locusts are a big problem. They are very […]
