Sentences with word «cutworm»

Description: Many species of cutworms exist; they are the larvae of a large family of moths.

Most of the time grubs are common cutworms that attack only pepper seedlings and chop them down at the base.

Fall and beet armyworms, yellow - striped armyworms, and variegated cutworms may feed on pods.

They're in the group called solitary surface cutworms because they cut off young plants at the soil line or slightly above or below it, sometimes dropping the severed plants into their burrows.

Some insects that may target black cohosh include cutworms and blister beetles.

Nematodes have no adverse affect on anything but the pest, and they have the side benefit of helping in the garden against cutworms and grubs.

If so, what can be used to get rid of them?Thanks, Gordon A: Gordon: Most of the time grubs are common cutworms that attack only pepper seedlings and chop them down at the base.

The insects most common to pepper plants are cutworms, aphids, pepper weevils, maggots, fleas beetles, hornworms, and leafminers.

Control: Tilling disturbs the overwintering places of the cutworm.

Early in the season, cutworms are the most damaging pests to both seeded and transplanted peppers.

When setting out plants in spring, place cardboard, roofing paper, plastic, or metal collars around the young stems, and push the collar 1 inch into the ground to stop the cutworms.

Because most of the plant is not eaten, these cutworms do an amazing amount of damage, attacking and felling new plants nightly, like they did to two of my chile plants this week.

Master gardeners usually describe about a dozen ways to attack or prevent cutworms, but for a small garden the best method is called a cutworm collar.

Update: Today, while replacing those chopped down plants, I found the cutworm, tossed it onto the gravel, and it was promptly eaten by a robin!

St. Capsicum, the patron saint of chile addicts, once wrote in a sermon that «every cutworm must grovel in the mud of the ditch before it climbs atop a row and gnaws down a pepper seedling.»

The sentence metaphor would be valid if one chemical meant «attack» and it could be combined variously with others that meant «cutworm», «aphid» and so on to yield combinations with derivable meanings like «cutworm attack».

Some common pests include cabbage aphids, cabbage root maggots, cabbageworms, flue beetles, cutworms, cabbage loopers, slugs, and nematodes.

NemAttack are excellent for the control of mobile pests such as fleas, caterpillars, cutworms, sod webworms, pill bugs, maggots, worker and soldier ants and many more.