Caterpillar Control in Your Garden
Caterpillars are chewing garden pests and are the larval/grub stage of moths and butterflies.
What are Borers
Borders attack fruit trees and a number of ornamental trees and shrubs. The grubs tunnel into the trunk or branches, leaving a mass of sawdust or gum oozing from the hole.
Symptoms
Sawdust, oozing gum and holes in branches or trunks.
Plants impacted
- Fruit trees
- Ornamental trees and shrubs
How to protect your plants against Borers
Probe the hole with a piece of wire to destroy the grub. Improve the plant’s growing conditions by fertilising, mulching and watering.
Mealy Bug Control in Your Garden
Mealy Bugs are small sap-sucking garden pests which produce white, powdery or ‘mealy’ wax material.
Thrips Control in Your Garden
Thrips are very small, long and thin insects with piercing and sucking mouthparts.
Whiteflies
Rid your plants of white flies with products and advice from the expert team at Yates. White flies are always guaranteed to turn up to be prepared from the start.
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