Insects, nematodes, and reptiles are common garden pests in Florida. Insects may include aphids, chinch bugs, crickets, fall webworm, fire ants, hornworms, mosquitoes, nematodes, scale, thrips, and twig girdlers. The sunshine state offers such pleasant year-round warmth that the list tends to be increasing, partly because of accidental, non-native introductions.
They eat common garden insect pests.
Rabbits, Ground Hogs (woodchucks), Deer are the most common garden pests.
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they control other pests in your garden and are food for the birds
Octopus caterpillar
It would be difficult to keep a lady beetle in captivity. They feed on common garden pests such as aphids, mites, scale insects and mealybugs.
They can be helpful in the garden because they eat common pests like slug, aphids, and other creatures that could harm plants.
Rabbits and deer are two of the biggest garden pests.
Rabbits are generally considered garden pests. So, no, a rabbit would not be good for a garden.
Eating and excreting are ways that caterpillars are garden pests. Caterpillars represent the larval stages of such lepidopterans as butterflies and moths. Butterflies tend not to be garden pests in their any of their life cycle stages even though moth larval stages can wreak hazard among vegetation and in buildings.
They kill aphids and other garden pests.
Fences, nets, and repellants are used to keep garden pests away. They help in keeping pests such as birds, squirrels, opossums, and even certain insects away from the garden.