A few of the words
- COPPER
- A strip of copper tape around a raised bed or pot creates a mild electrical charge that deters slugs — no chemicals needed.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- APHID
- A single aphid can produce up to 80 offspring in a week, which is why a small colony on a rose stem can seem to double overnight.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- EARWIG
- Despite their fearsome pincers, earwigs are a gardener's friend as often as a foe — they devour aphid eggs by the hundreds each night.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- GARLIC
- A homemade garlic spray, steeped overnight and strained into a bottle, has been a trusted organic deterrent in kitchen gardens for centuries.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Garden Pests: a free large-print word search
Garden pests word search — free and large-print — from nibbling aphids and slugs to wandering deer and the clever tricks that keep them at bay.
About Garden & Nature
Every garden has its uninvited guests — the rabbit that squeezes beneath the gate at dusk, the aphids clustered on a new rose stem, the slug's silver trail across the lettuce bed. Generations of gardeners have met them with ingenuity: a ring of copper around a pot, a net draped over brassicas before the butterflies arrive, a clove of garlic pressed into the soil. It is a quiet, ongoing negotiation between what we grow and the creatures that find it just as irresistible as we do.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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