RE: Help: What Insect is Eating My Plants' Leaves and How to Keep it From Coming Back?
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Garlic, peppermint, and hot pepper is another combination of scents to deter pests. Sometimes I rub some crushed mint leaves over the leaves of the plant I want to protect, it lasts about about a day or so. That is enough time to send crawly bugs away to find a new home.
Think you are doing the right thing by picking them off as soon as you find them. Be diligent, and they will stop returning.
Another strategy is to put a flowering container plant nearby. Anything that attracts lots of bees, wasps, and birds, to bait them into attacking the pest. This might help reduce the population while you are busy doing other things.
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Wow, thanks for the many suggestions! I've tried garlic before and it somehow works but recently, my mom told me the oil + soap is already enough. And now the pests are back. >.<