Common Vegetable Plants & Their Pests
Vegetable | Bugs | Animals | Diseases |
Asparagus | Aphids, asparagus beetles, harlequin bugs, Japanese beetles, slugs and snails, spider mites, tarnished plant bugs | Deer | Gray mold, fusarium wilt, rust |
Bean | Aphids, armyworms, blister beetles, corn earworms, cucumber beetles, cutworms, European con borers, flea beetles, harlequin bugs, Japanese beetles, June beetles, leafhoppers, leaf miners, mealybugs, Mexican bean beetles, nematodes, slugs and snails, spider mites, tarnished plant bugs, thrips, whiteflies, wireworms | Deer, rabbits, voles, woodchucks | Anthracnose, damping-off, downy mildew, fusarium wilt, gray mold, mosaic viruses, powdery mildew, rust, southern blight |
Carrot | Blister beetles, flea beetles, Ieafhoppers, nematodes, parsleyworms, root weevils, thrips, wireworms | Deer, pocket gophers, rabbits, woodchucks | Mosaic viruses, powdery mildew, southern blight |
Celery | Aphids, cabbage loopers, flea beetles, leafhoppers, nematodes, parsleyworms, root weevils, slugs and snails, spider mites, tarnished plant bugs, thrips | Deer, rabbits, woodchucks | Fusarium wilt, mosaic viruses |
Cole Crops | Aphids, armyworms, blister beetles, cabbage loopers, cutworms, earwigs, flea beetles, harlequin bugs, imported cabbageworms, leaf miners, nematodes, root maggots, root weevils, slugs and snails, tarnished plant bugs, thrips | Deer, rabbits, voles, woodchucks | Downy mildew, fusarium wilt, mosaic viruses, powdery mildew |
Corn | Aphids, armyworms, blister beetles, chinch bugs, corn earworms, cucumber beetles, cutworms, earwigs, European corn borers, flea beetles, harlequin bugs, Japanese beetles, June beetles, nematodes, wireworms | Birds, deer, raccoons, squirrels | Bacterial wilt, rust |
Cucurbits (cucumber, melon, pumpkin, squash) | Aphids, blister beetles, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, harlequin bugs, leafhoppers, nematodes, spider mites, squash bugs, squash vine borers, tarnished plant bugs, thrips, whiteflies | Birds, deer, raccoons, squirrels, voles, woodchucks | Anthracnose, bacterial wilt, damping-off, downy mildew, mosaic viruses, powdery mildew, verticillium wilt |
Eggplant | Aphids, blister beetles, Colorado potato beetles, flea beetles, harlequin bugs, hornworms, leafhoppers, nematodes, potato tuberworms, spider mites, whiteflies | Anthracnose, bacterial wilt, mosaic viruses, powdery mildew, southern blight, verticillium wilt | |
Lettuce | Aphids, armyworms, cabbage loopers, corn earworms, flea beetles, harlequin bugs, leafhoppers, leaf miners, nematodes, slugs and snails, tarnished plant bugs, whiteflies | Birds, deer, pocket gophers, rabbits, woodchucks | Gray mold, powdery mildew, mosaic viruses, southern blight |
Onion | Blister beetles, June beetles, nematodes, root maggots, thrips, wireworms | Pocket gophers, squirrels, voles | Downy mildew, fusarium wilt, rust, southern blight |
Pea | Aphids, armyworms, blister beetles, cabbage loopers, corn earworms, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, leaf miners, nematodes, spider mites, thrips | Birds, deer, rabbits, voles, woodchucks | Anthracnose, downy mildew, fusarium wilt, mosaic viruses, powdery mildew |
Peanut | Armyworms, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, leafhoppers, nematodes, spider mites | Deer, squirrels, voles | Southern blight, verticillium wilt |
Pepper | Aphids, blister beetles, Colorado potato beetles, corn earworms, European corn borers, flea beetles, hornworms, leafhoppers, Ieaf miners, leafrollers, nematodes, potato tuber- worms, spider mites, whiteflies | Anthracnose, bacterial wilt, fusarium wilt, mosaic viruses, southern blight | |
Potato | Aphids, blister beetles, cabbage loopers, Colorado potato beetles, cucumber beetles, European corn borers, flea beetles, harlequin bugs, hornworms, June beetles, leafhoppers, leaf miners, nematodes, potato tuberworms, psyllids, root maggots, root weevils, tarnished plant bugs, wireworms | Pocket gophers, voles | Anthracnose, bacterial wilt, mosaic viruses, southern blight, verticillium wilt |
Spinach | Aphids, blister beetles, cabbage loopers, flea beetles, imported cabbageworms, leafhoppers, leaf miners, nematodes, root weevils | Birds, deer, rabbits, squirrels, woodchucks | Downy mildew, fusarium wilt, mosaic viruses, rust, verticillium wilt |
Tomato | Aphids, armyworms, blister beetles, cabbage loopers, Colorado potato beetles, corn earworms, cucumber beetles, cutworms, European corn borers, flea beetles, hornworms, leafhoppers, nematodes, potato tuberworms, psyllids, slugs and snails, spider mites, thrips, whiteflies | Squirrels, voles | Anthracnose, bacterial wilt, fusarium wilt, gray mold, mosaic viruses, powdery mildew, southern blight, verticillium wilt |