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Top 10 List of Pests That Affect Houseplants

By paulgrow
November 24, 2015

As the outdoor gardening season is winding down in many parts of the country, a lot of us are bringing plants indoors or purchasing houseplants to keep our thumbs green during the winter months. Do you know that most pests that affect houseplants are brought in hitchhiking on other plants? I’ll help you identify many of those pests.

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virginiarose
Oct 27, 2011 8:10 AM CST
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Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Level 1 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Hibiscus Dragonflies Daylilies
Bee Lover Dahlias Butterflies Hostas Birds Lilies
Thank you Paul for the article. I am fairly new to Hostas, just last year I started a hosta garden and planted them all around the house. It was love at first sight, I bought around 95 hostas last year and obviously this could become a nightmare for me. What kind of preventative maintenance can I do to keep these bugs away or at least a lot of them. I have heard mention of seven dust. Only problem I've had this past year was slugs and a rabbit.( I think) Blinking I have slug bait and blood meal.

Susan
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29
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paulgrow
Oct 27, 2011 10:37 AM CST
Name: Paul
Allen Park, MI (Zone 6a)
Charter ATP Member Vegetable Grower Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Roses Region: Michigan
Canning and food preservation I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Container Gardener Composter Enjoys or suffers cold winters Avid Green Pages Reviewer
Slugs are really the only pest that affect Hostas. Divide them every 4-5 eyert years.
They are really a maintenance free plant
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ~Author Unknown
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kqcrna
Oct 27, 2011 4:08 PM CST
Name: Karen
Valencia, Pa (Zone 6a)
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Cut Flowers Winter Sowing Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Echinacea
Plant and/or Seed Trader Region: Ohio Region: United States of America Butterflies Hummingbirder Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Iron Phosphate products work well for slugs.

Karen
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virginiarose
Oct 27, 2011 5:57 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Level 1 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Hibiscus Dragonflies Daylilies
Bee Lover Dahlias Butterflies Hostas Birds Lilies
Thanks Karen, what is it ? Blinking
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29
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