These insects are wanted in the wild, wild west way - dead or alive.
These guys eat or suck the juices out of our prized backyard plants.
And since they go from plant to plant, they also spread diseases.
Help kids recognize these bugs and help you get rid of them.
The Dirty Dozen Bad Guys.
1 Aphids
Spray these nasty interlopers off your plants with water.
2 Corn earworms
Handpick these nasty creatures off your plants.
3 Tomato hornworms
Handpick these worms off your plants upon sight.
4 Squash vine borers
Get rid of these irritating insects by inserting wire into its hole in the stem and skewering.
5 Cucumber beetles
You'll want to handpick these killers off your plants upon sight, too.
6. Cutworms.
Use cut worm collars to remove these insects. You can can create your own from sections of toilet-paper or paper towel rolls pushed into the ground around stems of transplants.
7 Cabbage loopers
Another remove-by-hand pest.
8 Mealybugs
Spray these insects off your plants with water or swab off with alcohol on a paper towel or tissue.
9 Spider mites
Nasty creatures. Spray them away with water in a squirt bottle.
10 Snails and slugs
Handpick these slow but deadly garden killers by handpicking and crushing, crush or set out beer traps.
11 Earwigs
These mini-cockroach type interlopers invariably end up inside the lovely garden roses you bring inside your home. Stop them first by trapping on sight and crushing.
12 Whiteflies
Spray off these insidious insects with water or set out yellow sticky traps to catch and remove them.
Make sure you also know the garden good guys - the
10 Most Wanted
good garden bugs.
Keep these good guys safe from your bad guy removal routine.
