Posted on 06/12/2024 2:18:54 PM PDT by bluescape
If you are in Texas or the Southwest, Texas Tree Lizards work better than sprays (hint: cats must be kept at bay).
If you are dealing with squash nymphs (See below)you can 1) pick the eggs and 2) spray them with a solution of High Detergent Dish Soap in Water and they will suffocate. IIRC use 1/2 cup of dish soap in 1 gallon of water and spay them. Has to be High Detergent. Use more if 1/2 cup is not enough.
Beautiful aren't they? Its more beautiful to watch them slowly die after being sprayed. (This link gives a different ratio of soap to water. )
Post a picture if you can.
Dawn......
(Bugs Eating Plants)
Eat Zee Bugs
🦟🐛🐜🐝🐞🦗🪲
Problem solved
(sorry, it was there, so...)
😝
...incoming...
(1) Diatomaceous earth. It is a naturally occurring, nontoxic, dust-like silica compound. DE consists of the shells of freshwater diatoms harvested from a freshwater lake in France.
Dust DE widely on plants and any visible insects. Over a few days, it works by penetrating the bodies of insects and drying them out, as if they were cut into by small knives. Reapply after rain or watering.
DE is safe enough that it is sometimes used as a nontoxic flea treatment on cats and dogs.
(2) Try a natural essential oil pesticide spray that is nontoxic to people and pets and compatible with pumpkins. Neem oil (from a plant found in India) is often used, but there are also mixed natural oils with familiar scents like citrus. Essential oils are part of the defenses that many plants use against insects.
Such sprays have relatively quick effects on insect pests, like conventional pesticide sprays, but they are not persistent and beak down in the environment. They can be painful though on cuts and extremely painful in the eyes.
Thanks Sasquatch... over
Contact your local County Ag Extension office, they’ll help you.
I’ve had good luck doing the same. I added some Dawn to the mixture as well.
Mix equal parts of diatomaceous earth and 10% sevin dust.
Get a whole boat load of Praying Mantis:
https://prayingmantisshop.com/products/praying-mantis-juvenile-chinese
“Bugs Eating Plants” would be a GREAT band name.
Just watched a YouTube video on wiping out bugs on plants. 2 quarts of water, 1/4 cup of Dr Woods peppermint soap, 1/4 cup of Dr Woods Tea Tree soap, 1 cup 70% isopropyl alcohol, 1 tsp 1% hydrogen peroxide. Squirt it anywhere. Even the dirt. Totally harmless. Makes spider mites and aphids instantly perish. Follow up in one week to finish off the lifecycle.
The dude never mentioned ants. I’ve got Terro in my holster.
Saliva.
Mmmmm.
Make sure it’s not the treated, swimming pool variety of D.E.
Garlic, dishsoap, and water.
Bugs hate garlic, dishsoap
helps the garlic to stick
to the plant leaves.
Water to make the solution
sprayable.
Though I can’t remember the
proportions, it’s a chemical
free solution as the soap
transforms into a type of
fertilizer.
Thanks everybody.
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So? What’s the final formula?
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