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THE MAIN PESTS ATTACKING HERBS
The main pests attacking herbs are very few: Grasshoppers, the large bright green variety as well as the speckled brown, dearly love some of the more succulent herbs like comfrey, catnip, and lemon balm, especially if the weather is humid; caterpillars, particularly the green “loopy” type, can strip young plants of tarragon, lemon and garden thyme and basil, and the young leaves of salad burnet and marjoram, unless a close watch is kept; and the slugs and snails roll up in numbers each night at the prospect of fresh horseradish leaves for supper. These, however, seem to be the limit of the insect pests, with the exception of a few aphis which sometimes colonize on the fennel or dill stems below the flowers. The general health of the plants, the state of the soil in which they grow, and the natural food given to them, all help to protect them when insects and snails are about. A well-cared-for garden will have fewer insect pests than a neglected one.
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