What's Bugging Your Garden Borers and Soil Pests

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Borers are either grubs that become beetles or caterpillars the larvae of moths that feed inside stems. Some borers eat the tissue of swelling plant parts and develop inside the irregular galls they create. Others bore into plant tissues and spend their larval period inside the stem pith or trunk. Periodically check your vegetable plants from leaves to bottom for any sign of insects damage. If you need to use chemicals try to use the organic products. Diazinon is an organic phosphate that is especially useful in the soil to control cutworms grubs and wireworms.