What Animal Eats Geraniums

Deer are mammals that love to feast on grass, shrubs, leaves from trees, and flowers. One type of flower that deer will eat if they find it is a geranium.

What could be eating my geraniums?

We just mentioned that two pests are particularly damaging to geraniums—geranium budworm and geranium sawflies. However, other common pests love to eat vegetation and leaves from any plant (including geraniums), like aphids, thrips, greenflies, whiteflies, etc.

What animal eats the tops of geraniums?

You’re much more likely to come face-to-face with the geranium budworm, a pervasive caterpillar that eats geraniums from the inside-out. Fortunately, geraniums are quite pest resistant. Even deer aren’t that fond of them, so you’re not very likely to find squirrels and other mammalian pests dining on your flowers.