How do you protect pepper plants from pests?

Answer 1

Color, smell, and taste are ways whereby plants deter pests. Scientists find from anecdotes and through research that beneficial and harmful invertebrates and vertebrates prioritize plant-visiting according to access and attributes determined by feeling, seeing, and/or smelling. Carnivorous plants also may be considered as deterring certain pests through fatal attraction and consumption.

Answer 2

Acquisition of adapted/resistant cultivars, attention to soil drainage and fertility, avoidance of overhead irrigation, employment of row covers, removal of litter, and use of raised beds and sprays are ways to protect pepper plants from pests.

Specifically, pepper plants grow best in fertile, well-drained soil. They need to be transplanted to raised beds when soil temperatures rise above 55°F (12.78°C). They will benefit from floating row covers as long as they are properly irrigated, monitored and spaced.

Answer 3

One-way entries, stickiness, and traps whose true roles are disguised by enticing colors, liquids and smells are ways in which plants capture bugs to eat. The bugs may drown through a one-way fall into a liquid-filled bottom, such as in the case of bladderworts and pitcher plants. Or they may not be able to escape from sticky traps, such as on the surfaces of sundews and Venus flytraps.