Tiny pear-shaped insects that can be yellow, green, pink, brown, gray, or black. Usually without wings.

They multiply quickly so you’ll typically see big groups of these.

A Cabbage Looper is a green worm with 4 white stripes, up to 1.5 inches long, which moves like an inchworm with a looping motion.

A Cabbage Worm is green with faint yellow stripes and lightly fuzzy.

Adult Colorado Potato Beetles are oval-shaped beetles with yellow and black stripes.

Their larvae are reddish orange humpbacked bugs with black heads, and black dots along their sides.

About half an inch long, shield shape, and varying in color. Harlequin bugs have orange, yellow, and black markings. Another common type is green.

Nymphs are smaller, rounder, with different markings, but often in similar colors.

Blocky-shaped beetles, 0.5. - 1 inch long. The Japanese Beetle is metallic green with copper wings and has tufts of small white hairs along the sides of its body.

The Green June Beetle, or Junebug, is iridescent green.

Snails and Slugs

Slimy, soft-bodied animals with their eyes on long stalks. They range from tiny to several inches long, depending on the type. Gray, black, brown, and spotted slugs are common in NC.

Snails look similar, but have a shell on their backs.

Adult squash bugs are about .5 inches long, shield-shaped, dark gray, brown, black, sometimes with orange-brown on the edges.

Nymphs are smaller but similar in shape, and usually powdery pale green-gray color that darkens as they grow.

The adult moth looks a bit like a wasp, 1” – 1.5” in length, with clear narrow wings. The body is dark gray or brown, with bright red-orange on the back.

The caterpillars are creamy white and segmented with brown heads.