Pests such as stem subterranean termites, termites, and sucker worms prey on pepper plants. But within alongside these three pests, you should also be on alert for snails, root worms, shoot caterpillars, and leaf caterpillars.
- Tylenchus coffeae Zimm and T. similis Cobb, root worms, can limit seedling growth. The resulting damage prevents the development of seedlings, causes plant leaves to turn yellow, and eventually causes the pepper plant seeds to rot.
- The pepper plant’s wilt and turn brown and dry due to the shoot caterpillar (Enarmonia hemidoxa Meyr.). Shoot caterpillars come from small butterflies that lay their eggs on the top of the lower leaves on young leaves. The caterpillar will climb to the top of the plant after hatching and pierce the newest, still-curled leaves.
- Polyphagous caterpillars are the ones that harm pepper leaves.
- Pest snails are polyphagous. These pests can inhibit young leaf shoots, the tips of tendrils, and climbing roots. The pepper plant will droop and collapse from the climbing pole as a result of these pests eating the linked roots.
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