7 Pests You Probably Have In Your Garden (And What To Do)

Both @jacquesinthegarden and I are no stranger to garden pests, so in today’s video we go over 7 of the MOST common ones and our recommendations for how to prevent and control them.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Intro
00:09 – Aphids
02:40 – Fungus Gnats
04:35 – Cabbage Looper & Cabbage Worm
06:02 – Leaf Miners
08:28 – Cutworm
09:57 – Thrips
11:11 – Whiteflies

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@AtheistVeganAnti-Red
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I effing hate aphids. I even found dark grey ones on one of my trees, purple ones too

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@lorettasullivan7724
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Neem seed meal works nicely to keep fungus gnat larvae from destroying my seedlings. Mix about 1/4 cup meal with 2-3 cups warm water, stir it several times over about 20 minutes. Then mix it into a gallon of seed starting mix and work it into the mix with your hands. Be sure to wear rubber gloves. It works very well; also, I only water seedlings from the bottom so the top layer doesn't get damp and attractive to adult fungus gnats.

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@TELLASTAR03
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

OMG thank you so much for this video. Last year I thought I had hornworms on my tomatoes and basil and now I am realizing they were cabbage Loopers. I spent hours catching and bottling them several times a day, I was going insane just over 2 tomato plants and a basil plant lol.

Now I understand why they still ate the basil, Everyone kept saying grow basil next to your tomato to keep the horn worms away and I was like well that didn't work. lol And I remember seeing the moth that started it all on my screen door, next time he won't be left alone if he shows up.

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@mistressyodagaming
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I have a 1 acre size piece of land and I've never seen so many spiders in my entire life. I'm doing my 1st garden this year and I'm wondering how the abundance of spiders will help with pest control on my plants! 🤔

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@sharonmccormack8026
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I have the black insect showing on your thumbnail for the videos but you don’t identify it in the video 😢. Can’t identify this insect that has destroyed my plants. I noticed all my plants were drooping and the leaves staring to fall off then the black insects hiding under the leaves, inside curled up new shoots

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@bongbong0000
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

any suggestion for vine borer? at east coast and vine borers decimate my summer squash.

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@lesaamoore
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Thank you for a great explainer of common pests!

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@GreenScape.Studio
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Great

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@Ramsdl52
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

have you ever grown tobacco and made a tobacco "tea" for use as a pesticide?

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@andreacastelli6296
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

This is INVALUABLE. This is the first video I've seen where you go into detail with examples of what the pests look like, how to identify and treat, both naturally and with natural sprays! What about the leaf rollers are those pickle worms? I have those terrible here in central Florida and also mildew/fungus, would love to see these addressed in a follow up video

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@TalaHaydeéRubio
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

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@zorbexfx8059
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

This is one of the best videos I have ever seen on the subject. Thanks for sharing

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@roryroarasaur
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I would love to hear how you guys manage spider mites! They started on my house plants and then migrated to my outdoor garden where they are thriving 😢

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@gfabulous10
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Information is good I just wish you talk at a normal speed. Some of your words can’t understand them because you talk fast.

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@imothy
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I find that I get thrips early in the season, but mid summer the assassin bugs show up and take care of the thrips problem!

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@JHernz-dzog
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Can anyone tell me how to deal with white fly’s ?? They are devouring my cucumbers 😢

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@mimimills2524
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

WRECK havoc?? 😂….you young people are so cute. The phrase is WREAK HAVOC. You’re welcome

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@Jason-o5s
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Cheer~~~a destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops, food, livestock😢

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@johnruckman2320
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

What about earwigs and grasshoppers?

Then there's a slug problem this year. What can I do?

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@ragedarkprince3363
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I just grab those and chuck them on the nearby spider web lol the garden has a ton of spider webs

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@judypolick5039
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I found a huge tomato bug with all of these little white things in it back. What were those?

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@SandBoxPioneer
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

$35 per 6 cell tray? Would take years to get that money back, rather buy 6 $2 tomato seedlings for $12

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@noel3422
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Ha ha everything in California is a pest and detrimental to the AG community, try to find out what species of insects native to the central San Joaquin have been lost or even what they were and for some reason you are now pulling teeth of the same.

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@DonnieToys
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (Luke 13:5 [KJV])
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)

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@Kindog1223
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Step one: go to any public place

Step two: collect lady-beetles

Step three: release them in your garden, with all the flowers and hiding spots and food, they will stay

Step four: watch as the aphids get eaten alive

Step 4.5: locate the ants trail and then then redirect them into a bucket of bug spray, but mask the smell with meat or apple scent

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@janehop
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

You guys covered a lot of issues here, this is really great. You're really good at gardening problems and solutions! thank you

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@giantessmaria
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

just so damn disheartening to try to grow a productive garden with having to fight so many battles, from these little monsters to rats and disease…. i actually give up some years and then just for the love of it, i try again to see if conditions have changed at all.

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@Hi_Im_Akward
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Im curious if you've ever looked into springtail propagation. Im sure there are different species so youd want to make sure you are getting local species. Its really popular for reptile keepers to do bioactive enclosures and if its not set up right they will get fungus gnats. It's controlled by using isopod and springtail colonies. YOU HAVE TO GET LOCAL POPULATIONS if you are putting them outside. But the reason i bring it up is because these little critters naturally live in the soil and keep it healthy but since so many gardners are using potted plants or raised garden beds, they likely arent in your soil immediately to help with these issues.

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@cornfarts
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

11:13 i hate when i pee my pants before filming. Jokes aside thanks for all this info!

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@tee_jay6677
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Great video. Excellent information. Thanks for posting.

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@GuitarsAndSynths
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Thank you this was super helpful! I have major thrips problem!

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@AJsGreenThumbLLC
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Outstanding video guys!

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@sdoitla1431
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Found this out by accident. I hung a suet block over some aphid infested roses in the morning before going to work. Chickadees, sparrows and bushtits were common visitors at the suet feeder. When I came home at the end of the work day I went out to spray a home-brew insecticide on the roses. There was no trace of aphids on the roses. I now routinely use this practice for aphid control.

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@kaylindunbar2927
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Oh man, I've had white fly and didn't know what they were.

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@ixhilkalaskiiver792
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I have had great success against fungus gnats by using 'Natria neem oil,' diluted into water. I personally have a selection of 3 in. starter plants I keep indoors, I set them in a bowl of this diluted neem spray liquid (literally spray the spray into the water a few times, all you need) and overnight, no more fungus gnats. ; ) They came from some coconut coir bricks that I had purchased from amazon… absolutely infested with fungus gnat eggs, buyers beware.

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@adriankap2978
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Awesome that you use the Summit Mosquito Dunks. Been using them for years but I hadn't thought of putting the dunks in water. I've been using the Bits but the dunks make it much easier so I don't have to strain out the bits since they get moldy. Thank you so much for that tip. One dunk per 5gal, cool. What I'm understanding is BT will kill all larvae of most any kind of pest. Will BT also kill the larvae of the good bugs too? Great video. Somewhere I read ppl use toothpicks next to the seedlings but I like the sticks even better.

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@marys1358
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Eating the herbs and marigolds also.Just started my garden along with rain every other day.Thanks

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@bettyboop1524
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

What about ants living in outdoor container plants. So gross. I've used DE and put tape around the trunk of a peach tree. Any other thoughts I'm in KY. Thank you🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

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@Tommygrl1327
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Cabbage loopers are the bane of my garden!

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@caba32503
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I had aphids all over a trellis full of pole beans! Nothing worked! I read somewhere that old timers used flour to dust the plants and this would kill the aphids as they would bloat from ingesting the flour. I pruned, washed, and then powdered my pole bean leaves with all purpose flour and it worked!

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@robertlosasso4222
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I don’t have any of those bugs , because I spray malathion and a good fungicide to go along with it . Also Ortho makes a good garden vegetable spray that works well . I’ve been using spray for sixty years, so don’t tell me about this and that . I’ll be eighty years old in October and I’m going to keep spraying .

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@xuyahfish
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

I planted lettuce with potatoes. It was cold, so potatoes took awhile in spring to pop up. Now they are shading the lettuce. I also found slugs prefer potato leaves over lettuce, since I'm not harvesting potato leaves, so I'm fine with potato leaves with holes in them. Makes it easier to pick them off too.

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@no1pestcontrolbrisbane536
May 31, 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Thanks for sharing these tips!

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