I hate stink bugs.
1 posted on
04/28/2012 6:03:27 AM PDT by
orsonwb
To: orsonwb
I hate stink bugs. Zombie rabbits are the worst.
To: orsonwb
Stinkbugs must put a lot of store in their repulsive stench when squashed, I guess.
They’re so slow and ponderous, they’re almost like some prehistoric throwback.
To: orsonwb
A couple of years ago I saw some tomato horn worms, (big green things) with white cocoons stuck all over it. Turns out the Braconid wasp was responsible.
The wasp injects the worm with the larvae and they feed on the worm. I actually managed to capture some pics of the wasps emerging from the worms.
Death the horn worms! Actually the worms were on a Passion flower plant, not our tomatoes.
4 posted on
04/28/2012 6:17:46 AM PDT by
csvset
To: orsonwb
I suspect that many gardeners consider any bug to be a bad bug and then start “spraying.”
I recently learned about the assassin bug, which looks like a very sinister garden pest with a long proboscis, but actually uses it to impale other harmful insects and sucks out their innerds.
5 posted on
04/28/2012 6:31:24 AM PDT by
fwdude
To: orsonwb
Last season I experimented with a hotsauce/murphy oil soap concoction vs using pesticides.. It worked fine for me. I had to cover my lettuce with a mesh netting to keep the wasps/hornets from their daily take.
7 posted on
04/28/2012 7:45:41 AM PDT by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: orsonwb
Local DFW organic guy Howard Garrett’s website: http://www.dirtdoctor.com. He’s advocated IPM for years. Trichogramma wasps, Ladybugs, Green Lacewings, etc. to battle the bad bugs. Texas is using the Phorid fly to kill Fire Ants.
8 posted on
04/28/2012 8:01:50 AM PDT by
manic4organic
(We won. Get over it.)
To: All
an estimated 70% of all plant problems are caused by cultural practices rather than insects and diseases. The more I study organic gardening, the more I'm convinced that is the way to go. It is more expensive and time consuming to set up but the payoff is in the years following of no tilling or fertilizers.
10 posted on
04/28/2012 8:13:21 AM PDT by
BipolarBob
("Oh no, I'm not sick, well I'm not physically sick anyway. Mentally I'm sick beyond any doctor's abi)
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04/28/2012 11:38:24 AM PDT by
JustaDumbBlonde
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To: orsonwb
16 posted on
04/28/2012 12:50:31 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: orsonwb
Chipmunks suck. Yeah, they try to look cute but they can destroy a garden in nothing flat!!
18 posted on
04/28/2012 1:46:42 PM PDT by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: orsonwb
Speaking of stink bugs one somehow invaded my ice maker and I almost drank it down in my coke.It crunched like a piece of plastic. Very disgusting.
20 posted on
04/28/2012 2:32:50 PM PDT by
linn37
(Newt supporter here.)
To: orsonwb
Deer are downright evil. I have to cage all my fruit trees and grapes to keep the deer from destroying them.
Fortunately, deer are susceptible to lead poisoning and are good eatin".
21 posted on
04/28/2012 2:32:53 PM PDT by
Sarajevo
( Alcohol does not solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk.)
To: orsonwb
22 posted on
04/28/2012 2:44:35 PM PDT by
Vision
("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
To: orsonwb
I've had my garden ravaged by squash borers in previous years. Not anymore...
23 posted on
04/28/2012 4:00:53 PM PDT by
TSgt
(The only reason I have one in the chamber at all times, is because it is impossible to have two in.)
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