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Name: American Bollworm
Description: Black to brownish green with a dirty white stripe along its sides. Feeds on fruit bodies and leaves of fruit trees and other plants.
Treatment: Dursban 2E, Garden Ripcord
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Name: Ants
Description: Various types of ants. Nests may may accur in household or garden areas. Apply surface spray indoors and pesticides outdoors.
Treatment: ANT, Chlorpirifos, Garden Ripcord, Dursban 2E, Fendona 65C
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Name: Aphids
Description: Small soft bodied pear shaped insects, usually black or green. Found in small colonies on stems or leaves, particulary on new growth. Sucks sap which retards growth.
Treatment: Aphicide, Dursban 2E, Pirimor, Natural Insecticide
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Name: Astylus Beetle
Description: Medium sized beetle with black spots. Feeds mainly on pollen, damages blooms and prevents fruit or flowering. Active middle to late summer
Treatment: Bexadust, Malasol, Everdeath, malathion 50% EC
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Name: Australian Bug
Description: Soft scaly insect with large egg sac of ribbed white wax. Found on growth points and leafy arteries. Sucks sap, causing retarded growth. Eventually kills plant.
Treatment: Garden Gun, Malasol, Malathion
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Name: Chafer Beetle
Description: Medium sized, shiny brown night flying beetle. Burrows into ground during daytime. Feeds on young leaves and petals.
Treatment: Bexadust, Everdeath, ECO Natural Insecticide
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Name: CMR Beetle
Description: Small to medium sized beetle. Feeds on flower petals effecting flowering and fruit formation
Treatment: Bexadust, Malasol, Eco Natural
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Name: Cutworm
Description: Hairless worm of dirty grey colour. Found 2-5cm below ground level in vicinity of young plants. Active at night. Cuts stem of young plants just below surface of soil.
Treatment: Chilorpirifos, Garden Ripcord, Cutworm Bait
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Name: False Codling Moth
Description: Dark grey-brown moth,app. 6mm in lenght. Lays eggs on fruit. Larvae hatch which are pink with dark head when mature, slightly lighter in colour than that of the true codling moth. Larvae bore into the fruit causing rotten patches
Treatment: Garden Ripcord
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Name: Fruit Fly
Description: Medium sized flies, usually brightly coloured. Lays eggs in fruit (sting). When eggs hatch, fruit is infested with white maggots
Treatment: Garden Ripcord
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Name: Lawn Caterpillars
Description: Greenish brown caterpillars, living just below soil surface in lawns. Active at night, feeds on blades and top growth of grass causing large yellow patches.
Treatment: Chlorpirifos, Dursban 2E, Garden Ripcord, Karbasol
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Name: Looper Worm
Description: Green caterpillar which moves by looping it's body. Found on all plants. Feeds on fruit as well as leaves
Treatment: Chlorpirifos, Dursban 2E
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Name: Mealy Bug
Description: Small oval shaped light pink stationary insect covered by white waxy threads, found on tender new growth. Suchs sap causing plant to whither.
Treatment: Aphicide, Chlorpirifos, Garden Gun, Malasol
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Name: White Fly
Description: Small flour winged insect, covered with a fine white powder. Found on the underside of leaves. Swarm when disturbed. Sucks sap causing retarded growth.
Treatment: Garden Gun, Garden Ripcord, Whitefly Insecticide, Natural Insecticide
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Name: White Grub
Description: This fat off-white grub with large brown head is the larvae stage of the chafer or fruit beetle. Feeds mainly on dead organic matter. Also eats fine roots of plants causing small plants to whither.
Treatment: Bexadust
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