HARMFUL INSECTS IN GARDEN

Abstract

There are nearly 1 million known insect species on Earth, and about 2% of these insects are harmful to plants, animals, or humans. Managing insects in the vegetable garden and home landscape requires understanding which insects are beneficial to plants or animals, which are harmful to the plants we tend to, and which are just strange curiosities of nature. Most of the time, populations of insects that have the potential to cause damage to plants remain below the threshold in which widespread damage occurs because of biological factors such as the presence of predators and parasites as well as environmental factors such as weather and soil profile.