The insect world has countless sucking and chewing pests. One of the most difficult questions to answer, and I get asked it often, is “what’s eating my plant?”
It could be a chewing beetle, or caterpillar; or it could be a sucking spider mite, bug or aphid, among many, many others.
Our early heat wave this summer added an additional component to the problem…many insects love this sort of disagreeable weather and can multiply more rapidly as a result.