What’s on the Plant Pests poster
A 6-row table: Pest · Looks like · Treat.
Identification and first treatment.
- Aphids — Green or black clusters on new growth — Water jet, then soap spray
- Spider mites — Fine webbing, stippled leaves — Raise humidity, soap spray
- Scale — Brown bumps on stems — Scrape off, alcohol swab
- Mealybugs — White cottony spots — Alcohol on a cotton bud
- Fungus gnats — Small flies at the soil — Let soil dry; sticky traps
- Slugs and snails — Ragged holes, slime — Barriers, traps, hand removal
Isolate an affected plant immediately. Most of these spread to neighbours within days.
Questions about the Plant Pests poster
- What’s on the Plant Pests poster?
- A 6-row table: Pest · Looks like · Treat. Identification and first treatment. Aphids — Green or black clusters on new growth — Water jet, then soap spray; Spider mites — Fine webbing, stippled leaves — Raise humidity, soap spray; Scale — Brown bumps on stems — Scrape off, alcohol swab; Mealybugs — White cottony spots — Alcohol on a cotton bud; Fungus gnats — Small flies at the soil — Let soil dry; sticky traps; Slugs and snails — Ragged holes, slime — Barriers, traps, hand removal. Isolate an affected plant immediately. Most of these spread to neighbours within days.
- Who is the Plant Pests poster for?
- Plant Pests belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning garden can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Plant Pests poster?
- Check the undersides of leaves. Almost everything hides there. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Plant Pests belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Plant Pests?
- Composting, Growing in Containers and Houseplant Light sit alongside Plant Pests in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.CompostingGrowing in ContainersHouseplant Light
- Is the Plant Pests poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Plant Pests downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Plant Pests poster print at?
- Plant Pests is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Plant Pests loses nothing.Printing guide
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