Three booksPests & creatures
The Bestiary
Every living thing the companion knows to blame — the sap-suckers, the leaf-eaters, the grubs working out of sight below the soil, and the birds and mammals that treat a garden as a larder. Search by the damage you can see, or leaf through by how each one makes its living; every entry opens with how to know it, where it came from, what to do now, and who will hunt it for you.
32 creatures in the roll
Armyworms Spodoptera frugiperda & Mythimna unipuncta Leaf-eater Ruinous Asparagus beetle Crioceris asparagi Leaf-eater Serious Bagworms Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis Leaf-eater Serious Bean leaf beetle Cerotoma trifurcata Leaf-eater Serious Blister beetles Meloidae — chiefly Epicauta spp. Leaf-eater Serious Cabbage looper Trichoplusia ni Leaf-eater Serious Cabbage white caterpillars Pieris brassicae & Pieris rapae Leaf-eater Serious Caterpillars Lepidoptera larvae Leaf-eater Disfiguring Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata Leaf-eater Serious Cucumber beetle Acalymma & Diabrotica spp. Leaf-eater Serious Diamondback moth Plutella xylostella Leaf-eater Serious Earwigs Forficula auricularia Leaf-eater Disfiguring Fall webworm Hyphantria cunea Leaf-eater Disfiguring Flea beetle Phyllotreta & Altica spp. Leaf-eater Disfiguring Grasshoppers Acrididae — chiefly Melanoplus spp. Leaf-eater Serious Japanese beetle Popillia japonica Leaf-eater Serious Leafrollers Tortricidae — Choristoneura and Argyrotaenia spp. Leaf-eater Disfiguring Lily beetle Lilioceris lilii Leaf-eater Serious Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis Leaf-eater Serious Millipedes Diplopoda Leaf-eater Disfiguring Pea & bean weevil Sitona lineatus Leaf-eater Disfiguring Rose chafer Macrodactylus subspinosus Leaf-eater Serious Rosemary beetle Chrysolina americana Leaf-eater Disfiguring Sawfly Symphyta Leaf-eater Serious Slugs & snails Gastropoda Leaf-eater Serious Sod webworm Crambus and Parapediasia spp. Leaf-eater Disfiguring Sowbugs & pillbugs Oniscidea — Porcellio and Armadillidium spp. Leaf-eater Disfiguring Spongy moth Lymantria dispar Leaf-eater Ruinous Tent caterpillars Malacosoma americanum & M. disstria Leaf-eater Disfiguring Tomato hornworm Manduca quinquemaculata Leaf-eater Serious Viburnum leaf beetle Pyrrhalta viburni Leaf-eater Ruinous Winter moth Operophtera brumata Leaf-eater Serious