• Herbs

  parts of herbal plants and are often dried seeds, berries, roots, bark and fruits. Botanically speaking, ‘herb’ is synonymously to ‘herbaceous plant.’

• California red scale

  each gravid female, which may result in loss of shoots and branches. The fruit can be affected at all stages and may even die. The stem can also be severely [...] (positive phototaxis), they tend to target young shoots and apical leaves and fruits, where they prefer to settle in small hidden spaces. After inserting their

• Thrips

  Their feeding and virus transmission cause leaf deformation, silvering and fruit damage, leading to reduced yield and marketability. Because they reproduce [...] n the leaves themselves can shrivel, and there can be varying levels of fruit damage depending on the species of thrips and their population density. In

• Gooseberry

  rambling gooseberry bush grows up to 1,5 metres (5 feet) high and wide and its fruit, the berries, are mostly green, but there are also red (varying to purple)

• Sweet pepper

  Capsicum annuum . These different cultivars of the sweet pepper plant bear fruit in different colours ranging from vanilla/white and yellow to orange , green

• Chili pepper

  diameter) and acrid, their shape is ellipsoid-conical to lanceolate. The fruit (the peppers) usually develop from a pale yellow to a bright red when ripe

• Broad mite

  tissue can also develop on fruit. Where pierced cells are killed, deformed corky patches frequently appear causing misshapen fruits that often crack open at [...] us latus ) lay their eggs mainly on the underside of the leaf or on the fruit surface. The elongated, oval eggs are firmly attached to the surface and

• American serpentine leaf miner

  this can lead to burning in fruit such as tomato and melon. Loss of leaves also reduces yield. In full-grown plants of fruiting vegetable crops, however,

• Green peach aphid

  honeydew, making the crop and its fruit sticky. Black fungal moulds ( Cladosporium spp.) grow on this honeydew, contaminating fruit and ornamental crops and rendering

• Western flower thrips

  buds may not open at all. Fruits can also be damaged, even at low densities, giving rise to deformities such as the “pig-tail” fruit sometimes found in cucumber