something is eating the leaves on my butterfly bush?
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Leaves Are Chewed, Even Skeletonized by Japanese Beetles Beetles emerge from the soil or lawn at the end of June or early July and proceed to eat butterfly bush leaves and/or flowers. They make holes on the edges and in the middle of the leaves, leaving only the veins in some cases.
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What you are seeing is the remnants of a walnut caterpillar infestation. These caterpillars are gregarious (stay together in large groups). They will eat leaves one one to three limbs of mature trees or may strip the foliage on young trees.
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['Sunflower Beetles – Sunflower beetles typically feed on the leaf foliage and in small numbers or older plants may seldom hurt the plants. ... ', 'Cutworms – Cutworms can also damage the leaves of young sunflowers, leaving notches or holes.']
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Mint plants suffering from flea beetles are easily spotted, as the beetles will jump from the plant's leaves when disturbed. These small (~1.5 cm) beetles are a shiny black/bronze color. They cause damage by chewing small holes through the leaves. These holes will often show up in clusters.
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Chewed Blossoms and Leaves: Several pests chew flowers and leaves – from Fuller rose beetles that leave ragged edges on leaves to leafcutter bees that cut semicircular holes. Rose slugs look like tiny caterpillars, but are the sluglike larva of a sawfly. ... The white larvae can kill canes or an entire plant.
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When your grapevine leaves have notched holes along the edges, it may be due to feeding by the black vine weevil. This 1/2-inch-long black beetle marked with white scales on its wings and a distinctive snout eats leaves and destroys new buds and shoots when bud-break and adult weevil emergence coincide.
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If Sally you can see jagged teeth marks where pieces of the leaves have been eaten it could well be that the Photinia leaves are being eaten by a Weevil and the most likely Weevil could well be the adult Black Vine Weevil which are nocturnal and are only active during the evening.
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Like other Orthoptera, katydids have chewing mouthparts, and most are herbaceous but rarely cause significant plant damage to crops or ornamental plants. You may find some feeding on leaves and flowers in your garden or on your potted plants, especially in late summer.
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Hungry Caterpillars Caterpillars such as the hornworm and cabbageworm chew on the leaves, leaving them torn and ragged. These pests can be found feeding on the plant during the day, but unless their numbers are large, they generally won't cause too much damage, aside from cosmetic.
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Water lily beetles are small brown beetles whose larvae strip the surface layer of tissue from the pads creating holes and causing the leaves to shrivel and die. Adult beetles also feed on the flowers. ... Leaves should be hosed down regularly to remove larvae, and adult beetles and larvae can be removed by hand.
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Your plant is probably being attacked by hornworms. Despite their large size, these bright green caterpillars can easily hide among tomato leaves, staying out of sight until they have eaten most of the plant's foliage. Inspect your plants for hornworms now before they strip it down to bare stems.
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Lacebug (Stephanitis) on rhododendron There are two different species of these sap-sucking insects, one which attacks rhododendrons and the other azaleas. Lace bug damage on leaves causes a greyish, or whitish leaf upper surface with a discolouring on the lower surface.
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All down the east coast of Australia, gardeners with lilly pilly hedges have been noticing lots of chewed and damaged foliage. ... An infestation of Paropsides calypso leaf-eating beetles can give a healthy, dense-foliaged lilly pilly a sparse, lacy thread-bare look in the space of just a few weeks.
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A: That's the work of flea beetles, the bane of eggplants. Flea beetles are tiny black bugs that chew holes in leaves like someone peppered them with miniature buckshot. ... The other telltale trait is that these little bugs hop off the plants when they're disturbed, kind of like fleas.
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Mint leaf beetle. Mint leaf beetles may feast on your garden mint - learn how you can get rid of them. The mint leaf beetle, Chrysolina herbacea is a native, iridescent green beetle that feeds on the leaves of the mint family in the south of the UK. Both the adults and their fat, black larvae feast on the foliage.
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The most frequent assaulters of your precious basil plant leaves are Japanese beetles, slugs and aphids.
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Slugs, snails and beetles are the main culprits. Before rushing to the chemical cabinet though, remember that you don't eat the leaves. So, unless the damage is very extensive, it may well be best to simply ignore the pests.