Pests of fruit plants – Pests of vegetable plants, mites, nematodes, snails and certain mammals (e.g. mice and hares) feeding on the surface of plants (eating or eating leaf fragments, flower buds or flowers, damaging fruit buds or fruits), inside the buds, fruit, leaves, shoots, in the bark, in wood or on the roots. Their harmfulness lies in reducing the total area of leaves and roots, hence the malnutrition of plants, growth disturbance, as a consequence, a decrease in the yield, both in terms of quantity, and qualitative, and in extreme cases its complete destruction.
Besides, some pests of fruit plants (e.g. aphids) in addition, they transmit viral diseases, which may have more serious consequences.
