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Garden Insects
The term 'garden insect helpers' generally refers to insects that are beneficial as pollinators or as feeders on destructive bugs. Among the best known of the beneficial insects are the ladybird beetle, the colorful butterfly, and the busy bee. What's bugging your garden? Are there slugs in your salad greens, ants in your azaleas, bean beetles in your beans, or some other pesty insect in your garden? Insects like to eat, but gardeners are not willing to share.
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No, aphids are not a kind of lice even though their activities are somewhat lice-like and even though they get called plant lice. Lice of the Phthiraptera insect order technically function as disease-vectoring, obligate insect parasites of warm-blooded hosts whose blood and secretions they drink as members of sipping species or whose debris and skin they feed upon as chewing species members. Aphids of the Hemiptera insect order pierce leaf, stalk and stem tissue to access internal, life-sustaining, nutrient-rich xylem and sugar-rich phloem and thereby vector diseases and pathogens.
Yes, Sevin insecticide kills box elder bugs. The chemical, inorganic, laboratory-made, synthetic control in question numbers among its ingredients the killer active ingredient carbaryl. The ash (Fraxinus spp) and maple (Acer spp) seed-loving insect in question responds to less toxic treatments of horticultural oils against eggs and hose-downs and insecticidal soaps against all other stages.
How do flowers encourage insects to help them pollinate?
Color, fragrance, location, and shape are ways in which flowers encourage insects to help them pollinate. Bright colors, delicious smells, easy access, floral and foliar shelter, rest stops, and welcome configurations mean that insects can drink healthy and move safely without getting lost in a sea of monotonously colored, shaped and sized plants.
How do you get rid of diving beetles?
Here are a couple of answers (copied from previous question and answers)
1. They live in your yard and fly into your pool and also fly out. If you look real close you will see a small air bubble on them. Simply spray a "small" amount of Wisk laundry liquid over the pool and this will prevent the air bubble form forming and they will leave the pool... Why Wisk, because it contains a water tension breaker...
2. If these are the "swimmer" type of bugs, you can get rid of them in the pool by putting a couple tablespoons of Lemon Joy on TOP of the water. I usually wait until dark, turn off the pump, allow the pool surface to smooth out, then turn on the pool light - the bugs are drawn to the light. Then I only have a small area to cover with the Lemon Joy. When the bugs surface for air, they will get covered with the soap and cannot breathe. You have to be patient and wait for the bugs to come to the light, then come up for air. By the next morning the soap is neutralized and the dead bugs are floating on the surface. Ross Townsend
Yes! Gnats do bite. The bites usually itch a lot and can be painful! They bites are very aggravating! Some usually have a bit of blood at the top. When you are bitten, you may not know it but soon it'll start to swell up. If you have a bite, clean it because of the gnat's bacteria it carries. Then, buy like anti- itch cream to make it stop and the bites should clear up!
What do New Zealand leaf bugs eat?
Animals, animals and plants, or plants number among the prey that New Zealand leaf bugs eat. The selection reflects the different feeding priorities of different species. The term New Zealand leaf bug will be interchangeable with New Zealand true plant bug even though, regardless of terminology, the Heteroptera insect order member showcases species-specific carnivorous, herbivorous or omnivorous diets.
If, by "in your house", you mean in a corner somewhere actually indoors, you can wait until evening (wasps are not active at night- will not fly) and spray it. If you do not want ot use insecticide inside- douse them w/ lots of spray cleaner (409, Clorox clean up- that kind of thing- you'd be surprised how effective ammonia and bleach are at killing insects)
If, however, you mean in a wall void of your house (ie inside walls)- call an exterminator. Really, there is no other choice (unless you live near a university w/ an entomology program- then they might do it to get the nest for display).
I am an urban entomologist, by the way.
No, Ladybugs (both adult and larval stages) eat aphids, they are carnivorous. Ladybugs are a good thing to have in your strawberry bed, they will keep the other pests in check!
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What causes your indoor plant to yellow?
They turn white because there is no sunlight, the chloroplast gives the plants their color but without sunlight the chloroplast slowly in a way kinda fade & let other colors such as white show instead of the usually green.
What do ladybugs with black spots and orange wings eat?
Mildew spores are what little black and white ladybugs [Psyllobora vigintimaculata] eat. They're unusual among the typically carnivorous ladybird beetles [Coccinellidaefamily]. Other common names for them include 'tiny black and white', 'mildew eating' or 'twenty spotted' lady beetles.
Will a snail come out of its shell when it's dead?
In pieces yes, and the odor is most foul. If a snail remains unmoving for a couple of days and you still see a his shoe and wonder if he yet lives, simply pick it up out of the water and give it a sniff. It is unmistakable if it is dead. Snails grow their shells while crabs kill the snails for the shells or collect empty shells. As the snail grows so does it shell, where a crab must replace and upgrade its residence as it grows.
Yes, you can. Many treat companies add honey to sweeten their products and stick nuts, oats etc. together. Honey is also naturally rich in antioxidants that are good for horses. It can help for horses with pollen allergies. Unlike dogs and cats botulism is not as much of a worry when feeding honey to horses although it should still not be fed in large quantities.
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Based on the oldest known fossils the honey bee seems to have originated in south and south-east Asia. They then spread into Europe approximately 35 million years ago.
Honey bees in other parts of the world were introduced by European settlers.
How do you get rid of fruit flies?
Get rid of gnats by pouring bleach down the sink drains. Allow to stand for an hour and then pour water down the drains to flush.
Cut a lemon in half. Put it down the garbage disposal. It will get rid of the gnats and also give a pleasant aroma to the disposal.
Put cups of vinegar on your counters and sporadicallythroughout your home. they will fly into and drown.
Aphids are garden bugs that suck sap from plants. If they suck the sap of an infected plant, they have the virus on them and then when they move to another plant and penetrate it to suck the sap, they can infect the second plant with the viruses on their faces and in their mouths.
Easy access and inadequate circulation and sanitation can be reasons for a fly infestation in the garage.
Specifically, some residents unwittingly encourage pests such as flies by not closing doors and windows. Other residents may keep the garage so tightly shut that circulation of air is inadequate and welcomes the flies that manage to enter during the few moments of open access. Either way, flies will congregate in a garage which has cracked ceilings, floors and walls or dirt surfaces. They also will cluster in garages where animals can enter and propagate before dying or which have loosely covered or uncovered garbage cans and plumbing facilities in which bacteria grows.
Control and prevention include:
Application of permethrin-based insecticides;
Cleaning and repair of garage interiors;
Removal of dead wildlife;
Rinses of sinks and trash cans monthly with bleach;
Seals on waste receptacles;
Window screens so that glass can be regularly raised and shut during daylight hours
Why are aphids mostly found in the stems instead of leaf litter?
That their food sources are around the stems is a reason why aphids tend not to be found in leaf litter.
Specifically, an aphid (Aphidoidea family) is an insect with piercing mouthparts. It pursues a diet which is rich in plant sap. It will be more interested in the fluids which are available in the shoots than the nutrients which are released through decomposition in the debris of fallen foliage around plants.
What bugs are found in compost piles?
To be frank, I believe that all insects are beneficial to compost, as most bugs that eat organic matter will help break down the contents of your compost pile. Centipedes, millipedes, sowbugs, earwigs, beetles, and of course, earthworms of all stripes are welcome.
How do you get rid of mosquitoes in house plants?
Go to a nursery for instructions (they have liquid solutions or sprays). Get some potting soil (the amount you will need.) Take the plant outside and gently remove it from the pot. Lay the root ball on plastic bag, clean out the pot (well away from your plant) with a solution of bleach and warm water and scrub! Follow the directions of what the nursery expert told you. Then spray OUTSIDE the leaves and flowers of your plant. It's advisable that if you have any other plants in the house that you also repeat the same action. DO NOT have children or pets in the area you are working and when you are finished hose down EVERYTHING that the bleach, and any solutions or sprays the expert at the nursery gave you.
How do worms know where they are going?
Worms find food by chewing their way through the earth and through the decaying material on top of the soil. As they chew, they eat and absorb food items while allowing unusable items, such as dirt, to pass through their systems.
They weaken plants by sucking nutrients from leaves. Their worm stage will destroy young plants and cuttings roots, and will kill the young plants.
If you want the pine tree to become fatter, you must cut about the top third of the central leader off. Otherwise, you can trim the ends of the branches to shape. Be sure to trim any branch that crosses another branch.
How do honey bees carry pollen?
Bees have a slightly concave area on the tibia of their hind legs surrounded by hairs. These are called corbiculae, or 'pollen baskets'. As the bee is foraging, it uses its forelegs to brush the pollen from its body back into the corbiculae where it is trapped.
You can often see this -- look for (usually) yellow lumps on the bee's hind legs.
