Webbing on Garden Plants: Mites or Caterpillars
Fine dusty webbing with stippled leaves is mites. Coarse webbing enclosing whole shoots is caterpillars. Two problems, two responses, one look at the leaf.... Read more.
Moth Webbing in a Pantry: Silk in the Food
Clumped grains and a silk mat inside a bag. The webbing is a larva feeding, and where the cocoons end up tells you how long it has been going on.... Read more.
Holes in Leaves: Reading Garden Damage
Edge notches, shot holes, skeletonised patches and slime trails are four different culprits. The damage shape names the animal better than searching does.... Read more.
Holes in Clothes: Moth or Carpet Beetle
Moths graze irregular patches and leave webbing; beetles cut cleaner scattered holes. Where in the garment the damage sits matters as much as its shape.... Read more.
Caterpillar Frass: Green Pellets Under a Plant
Look up, not down. Pellets on a leaf or a path are a map to a feeder you have not spotted, and the size of them estimates how big it has grown.... Read more.
Types of Caterpillars: Garden Pests and the Stingers
Sorted by what they do rather than what they become. The ones eating brassicas, the ones eating tomatoes, and the small group worth not touching.... Read more.
Grubs in Soil and Lawn: Which Beetle Larva Is It
The C-shaped white grub under turf is a chafer or Japanese beetle larva. Raster pattern and depth separate them from the harmless soil dwellers.... Read more.
Types of Aphids: Colour, Plant and Where They Hide
Colour is the weakest clue because one species varies. The host plant and the feeding position do the work, and root aphids hide below the soil.... Read more.
Clothes Moth Larvae: Webbing, Cases and Holes
The larva builds silk as it feeds, and that webbing is the diagnostic. The moth that fluttered out of the wardrobe eats nothing at all, ever.... Read more.
Bugs That Look Like Moths: Drain Flies and Four Others
The impostor people actually meet is a drain fly. Wing count and where it chooses to sit separate it from the two moths that matter, indoors and out.... Read more.