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title: "Anyone have a solution for bugs 🐛 eating my plant"
description: "Anyone have a solution for bugs 🐛 eating my plant"
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community: "Edible Gardening"
author: "Emery’s Garden"
published: "2023-07-27T00:21:26.04Z"
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# Anyone have a solution for bugs 🐛 eating my plant

_Posted by Emery’s Garden on 2023-07-27_

Anyone have a solution for bugs 🐛 eating my plant

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## 5 comments

### Kk garden commented on 2023-07-27

Cater pillars and snails

### anneliese commented on 2023-07-27

peppermint oil spray or rosemary, citronella, lemongrass, etc. something pungent. spray the leaves; it worked on my avocado tree that was getting devoured by earwigs, which looks like what you seem to gave

### Aubrey commented on 2023-07-29

Pesticide! Get one that covers a big big range if you don’t know what it is

### Sunny commented on 2023-07-30

Snails love beer! Leave a shallow dish of stale beer in or near the pot. It will be filled with snails the next day if that is the critter eating your plant.

### GardeNerd commented on 2023-07-30

Bt and “caterpillar tweezers”.

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