The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word APHID which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2015.
Plant pest crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| APHID | 73 % | 5 |
| BORER | 9 % | 5 |
| APHIS | 9 % | 5 |
| MITE | 4 % | 4 |
| LEAFHOPPER | 1 % | 10 |
| GYPSYMOTH | 1 % | 9 |
| THRIPS | 1 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Plant pest
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Crossword Answer definitions
APHID noun- Sapsucking pest insect of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result APHID
- Garden pest
- Lacewing's lunch
- Plant pest
- Creature often killed with a spray
- Gardener's pest
- Lousy creature
- It can ruin a plot
- Ladybug's prey
- Plant-eating insect
- Plant menace
More clues leading to the result BORER
- Hole-making pest
- Shipworm or hagfish
- Drilling tool
- Bug found in trunks
- Hole maker
- Destructive insect
- Hole-making bug
- Drill
- Auger, e.g.
- Drilling bug
More clues leading to the result APHIS
- Little sucker
- Garden pest
- Plant menace
- Plant louse
- Fruit pest genus
- Genus of garden pests
- Genus of sap suckers
- Crop pest
- Plant pest genus
- Pest in the garden
More clues leading to the result MITE
- Small insect
- Wee arthropod
- Bed bug
- Scabies transmitter
- Teeny bit
- Tiny pest
- Far-from humongous creature
- Bitty bug
- Parasitic arachnid
- Teeny arachnid
More clues leading to the result LEAFHOPPER
More clues leading to the result GYPSYMOTH
- Foliage-eating flier
- Foliage-eating pest
- Plant pest
- Insect whose larvae destroy foliage
- Leaf-eating insect scourge
- Its caterpillars feed on tree foliage