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Crop diseases and pests are one of the agricultural disasters that adversely affect the yield and quality of crops. To prevent and control them, many researchers have been working on deep learning-based disease and pest recognition. Most of these studies use classification techniques to output one class with the highest probability from a predefined list of pests. However, the accuracy of classification models is not perfect, and they can produce enough incorrect results to require additional aids. In this study, we proposed a novel disease and pest diagnosis pipeline that combines object detection with a similarity-based retrieval model. In our proposed pipeline, we first detect the damaged region in the image and then classify the class to which it belongs. In the similarity-based retrieval model, the detected region image can be used to further show the user the most similar damage symptom images to help them make a final decision. The pipeline proposed in this study was first applied to three diseases: fire blight, scab, and black necrotic leaf spot.