Top Ten Pests based on enquiries to RHS in 2001

1 Slugs and snails
2 Vine weevil
3 Red lily beetle
4 Grey squirrels
5 Glasshouse redspider mite
6 Chafer grubs (mostly in lawns)
7 Rabbits
8 Viburnum beetle
9 Wormcasts on lawns
10 Foxes

Top ten plants that generated most pest enquiries were:

1 Lawn grasses
2 Lilies
3 Apples
4 Viburnums
5 Roses
6 Citrus plants
7 Fuchsias
8 Camellias
9 Rhododendrons
10 Daffodils

Source: The Garden, March, 2002, p. 157.


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