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Pests & Diseases

Introduction

Home page of the pest, disease and weed department.

This week's problems.

Every week something is attacking your plants. Check them out and be prepared to deal with the situation.

Gallery of Weeds.

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Name search.

Use the search box on the left if you know the name of the pest you are looking for. The first result will load into the panel below and any other matches are listed in the right-hand panel. Only common names loaded at present.

Symptom search.

If you have a sick plant with no obvious cause present, use the search box on the right entering one or two words describing the problem. Simple phrases like 'leaves eaten' or single keywords like 'yellow' work best. As with the name search, matches are listed in the right column and displayed in the panel below.

Search Results.

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FrogHopper

  • Pest type - Insect
  • Infects -  Foliage,
  • Host plants-  Non-specific,
  • Symptoms-  Large globules of froth on plant:   Bubbles of froth:   Looks like spit:  


froghopper without the spitThe blobs of froth covering many plants in summer look unsightly and are caused by an overgrown aphid-like creature that spends most of its life drinking sap and blowing bubbles. Due to the relatively low numbers of froghoppers present at any one time, the damage is usually slight and is more of a visual nuisance.

If the unsightly spit is too much to bear, the only solution is to spray with systemic insecticide.