Vegetable Insects

Vegetable Insects

Find examples of common Texas vegetable insects below. If you need assistance identifying something, please take some samples enclosed in plastic baggies to the store where you usually shop and have our Information Center staff take a look. Often they've seen your symptoms frequently enough that they can offer their opinion of what the problem is and suggest a solution. Find out how to grow vegetables and herbs by reading about vegetables and herbs here.

Aphids or Plant Lice
Asparagus Beetle
Black Cutworm
Aphids and Plant Lice Asparagus Beetle Left - Larva
Right - Adult
Black Cutworm
     
 Colorado Potato Beetle Harlequin Bug
 
Hornworm
 
Colorado Potato Beetle Top - Larva
Bottom - Adult
Harlequin Bug Tomato Hornworm
     
 Looper on Cabbage Mexican Bean Beetle
 
Spider Mites with Web
 
Looper on Cabbage Mexican Bean Beetle (Eggs, Larva,
Pupa, and Adult)
Spider Mites with Web
     
 Squash Beetle Striped Cucumber Beetle
 
Tomato Fruitworm
 
Squash Beetle Striped Cucumber Beetle Tomato Fruitworm
     
Vegetable Leaf Miner Damage to Tomato
Vegetable Leaf Miner Damage to
Tomato