I have snails that hide under my shed during the day and come out to eat my garden at night. I have two varieties. My neighbor suggested putting poison all around the shed but I have other animals I don't want to kill. I don't know, salt? I also have problems with aphids and have tried ladybugs and other home remedies, but to no avail. They love my roses.

We were called in to irradicate (shoot) roos from properties not only because they eat every crop around, but one poor family couldn't go into their garden without a 6 footer bailing them up. He wasn't wasted at least; made good eating they told me.

Japanese beetles! They are nasty and defoliate many flowering plants in July.

Fatcat, what is/are roos?

Are you talking about Kangaroos?

Milshaf we don't have bunnies eat our plants anymore, but they used to, so maybe. I also use something else that kept the bunnies at Bay. It was something that a Garden nursery owner told me is a trade secret, called MILORGANITE, it keeps a lot of critters away if they are around it. It has coyote or some other wild predatory animal's urine as part of the ingredient and it comes in granules. It is also a fertilizer. I put it around my beds and near the place of entry into my plantings where they were. They did stay away and the granules last a while unless you have a lot of rain. I live in the desert, so no problem here.

Until I moved to acreage on the side of a mountain I had never heard of Mountain Beavers... Super destructive herbivores, and dumb. They keep walking in front of my rifle. They took out about $500 worth of perennials in a matter of hours.
The deer I just shoo off.

Did you have to post a photo of a dead animal? Very inhumane.

Snails hands down, they're eat so much of my garden for being such little guys.

Sethson, he isn't dead, only taking a nap...

Ants, and a wily rat!

Agreed...ants are a nuisance since they love my fruit trees but I guess I can't blame them! :) #BeSeenBeSafe

Millipedes are leaving the outside areas and coming INSIDE. Find about a dozen each day that have found their way inside. What to do, what to do.

Sethson, are you for real? LOL!

Colorado- deers, squirrels, rabbits

Iguanas in my garden in Mexico

squirrels

Here is a great top ten list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhVAo9ZGL-8

Crows crapping all over my patio!

printesa, i understand chickens love Japanese beetles

I wish I were allowed to have a few chickens, but we are not:(

Why are woodchucks so bad? I have one in my yard and he never seems to do any harm at all.

I'd say spider mites (on watermelon, apples, roses and lots of other stuff), variegated leafhoppers (on our grapes), and squash bugs (on squash—especially zucchini and young plants). Aphids and whiteflies can be pretty bad, but showering the plants every two or three days for the first part of the season seems to help deter them pretty well.

We had a number of stink bugs on our Solanaceae plants last year, but they didn't seem to be doing any damage. So, I didn't fret about it.

CATS.!!!....have been using my vegetable garden as their toilet.... yuk!! Poo next to my cucumbers and among my basil. It has been so bad I haven't planted a garden in a few years. The neighbors keep their poor neglected cats outside 24/7 all the time and in the worst of weather which is sad. The innate nature of cats is not to potty at the location or yard where they live, so they conveniently {for them} use my yard and garden which is next door. Gross, unsanitary, disgusting, unhealthy. They love freshly dug earth. I have no idea how to prevent them and I would never put out anything that could harm them in anyway. I love all animals including cats. Cat poo is just not the extra flavor I'm looking for on my food...

{P.S. the critters I FEAR though are 'ticks' because they harbor much disease for both people and dogs.}

Photo: had to place rocks around my raspberry's to block the cats from 'going' :

One thing I do to keep cats at bay is to grow uncaged indeterminate tomatoes and muskmelons. Cats (and most humans who aren't me) don't tend to like to venture into thick plants like those. So, it keeps them out of some areas (even if there's an area in the middle without the thick plants). Cats may eventually get a little adventurous, but they're still not likely to cause a mess in those conditions.

One thing that can sometimes prevent them from using a garden bed as a little box is to keep the top of the soil wet. It's not a long-term solution, but it's better than nothing.

Black plastic seems like it may help, too.

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Shule,

Thanks for those tips! Where our garden is located is along the side edge of our yard along a fence close to the corner of the yard. It is located at the spot in the corner where 4 suburban fenced in back yards meet/join together and they each have a shed in that corner. One problem that I didn't mention is that the 'cats' I spoke of use the sheds in all 4 yards to climb on top of and jump down off of as a conduit down into my garden. They jump off of the roof of any shed and into the center of the garden. They basically go where they want to. I once bought an herbal cat deterent 'spray' to spray around the garden but it did no good. I did try plastic the plastic you suggested once which worked very well and is a good suggestion. My only gripe is it looks so ugly to me. I guess I'll have to make some compromise of function over form in this case to keep my yard from being a kitty potty lol!

Sticking plastic forks in the ground is supposed to help, too. I tried that in a small area where I had young tomatoes (a cat had been rolling on/around them and stuff). The cat looked kind of angry about the forks when I saw her there again. She knocked down or broke at least one of the forks, but other than that, they were decently effective.

Thanks Shule! Great idea

I'll try that when the spring comes!

Thrips! I've gardened for almost 50 years and never had a problem nor ever seen them. Iin fact, I've never seen them as they are tiny and burrow inside the leaves, but unlike leaf miners you don't know they are there. It's only in the following years where you can see the damage. Leaves turn silvery and the damage (thrips) spread to other leaves. If you see it in a garden you can count on them spreading out across the garden. My garden is situated between 2 neighbors whose gardens who are infected. Keeping up all the debris is very important, but catching the young thrips in the spring when they come up from the soil and start the cycle again.

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It depends on your location , but here in Pennsylvania I find squash vine borers to be the worst menace by far. They decimate my zucchini plants and bore into most of my winter squash. They get my vote because they seem so hard to control. I have plenty of other nasty pests, but they don't make the list because I have ways to counter them. Borers are number one.

Me! haha!

Me! Haha!

Japanese beetles for sure!

Armadillos where I live.

Groundhog, they eat everything in a blink of the eye!

Loopers, nasty things will defoliate your bougainvillea toot sweet! They are on their second go at mine. The first time they defoliated them 100%. Armed with information (as a new Master Gardener), treated them with Bt. (Bacillus Thuringiensis). Take that loopers! It only works on worms, caterpillars. But it does work! and way less harmful than chemicals.

Wouldn't BT control loopers? Assuming they are caterpillars of some sort....

But for me, it is a tie between deer and racoons. Deer because they eat everything and racoons only because they are so devious at getting to things.

snails and slugs.

At home here it’s ants, but at our farm it’s centipedes and snakes 😦

Voles, with a "V".

We have managed to cut down significantly on vole damage by cutting down our big grasses in the fall. Which is a pity, because they can look so beautiful in the winter, but they made great condos for voles.

We have a big garden and a farm, and all I know is hubby says red weevils and palms borers are really destructive to plants.

Groundhogs are rude jerks

I'm having problems with chipmunks and their wholesale slaughter of the roots of my plants, traveling in tunnels those are generally everybody's problem in the complex. Doesn't help that one lady feeds them. Specifically it is some little green worm that hides under my rose bush leaves and chomps the hell out of

Bunnies

Squirrels are the worst. I hate them.

Vine borers and cucumebr bettles

If there are mice, the stray cats that come for food ( also adapted our home and had kittens - grown up too lol) they catch anything! Biggest pests when its the season are mosquitoes and little insects from neighbours neglected and overgrowing trees entering our garden. We have bees that have built beehives over to the side our main door, on window sills at times, but if you don’t bother them, they don’t bother you- they are after our flowers.