Something is eating my peppers and tomatoes.
Today I’m going to buy three cool-mist humidifiers from Goodwill, pour some pyrethrin I have in them and see if that kills off the mosquitoes - kinda like a poor-mans Mosquito Magnet. Should cost about 10 bucks, but I have no choice, I think I’m getting OFF sickness I have to spray so much. plus the OFF is stripping off the sealants of whatever I sit on, and that can’t be good.
One of our tomato plants is off by itself and I noticed a bunch of the blooms were missing. I spied a bright green grasshopper on that plant. Probably the culprit.
The best cure for Japanese beetles is a dish washing glove. Put the glove on and squish the pests. Of course, you can do it without the glove, though it feels creepy and they'll squish brown stuff on you.
Try to get them in the early part of the day or towards dusk, during the mid-day sun, they're quicker to fly away.
A long term solution for Japanese beetles is to use Milky Spore.