The rains of June are just around the corner. Keep alert for insects such as chinchbug and armyworm through the summer months. Lots of chewing insects are busy now, including the lubber grasshopper, which loves crinum and spider lilies. Caterpillars and maybeetles do a lot of chewing damage and weevils will notch the leaves of many plants and attack roots. The royal palm bug is also active until June, when rains wash them away.
Rain also eliminates aphids, spidermites, thrips and other small sucking insects.
Scale and mealybug are becoming more active. Whitefly, snails and slugs are also showing up in large numbers. Grafting and air layering can be done now. Basically, it's what it does and does not tolerate. If you live near the ocean, for example, use salt and wind tolerant plants such as Indian hawthorn, spider lily and crinum lily.