What garden pest eats cantaloupe?

Answer 1

Invertebrates are the garden pests that eat cantaloupe. The edibles in question (Cucumis melo) attracts particularly such garden insect pests as:

• aphids (especially melon and peach), armyworm moth caterpillars;
• cucumber beetles, crickets, cutworm moth caterpillars;
• darkling beetles, dried-fruit beetles;
• earwigs;
• flea beetles;
• grasshoppers;
• leafhoppers, leafminers, lister beetles, looper moth caterpillars;
• pickleworm moth caterpillars;
• seed corn maggots, squash bugs, squash vine borers, stink bugs;
• thrips;
• whiteflies, wireworms (click beetle larvae).

But they also prove irresistible to arachnids such as spider mites, molluscs such as slugs and snails, and worms such as root knot nematodes.