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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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What causes the tomato leaves and stems to turn yellow and fall off and turn brown and die?
There are many different reasons for this. It can be insect damage, the plants are too close to one another, bacterial and/or fungal damage or too much/too little water.
If there are many small dots or holes in the leaves, this is a sign of insect feeding on the leaves. A spray on poison like malathion or a sevin dusting will do the trick, just do not put poison on the blooms as you can kill your pollinators by mistake.
Plants have a natural defense to overcrowding which limits the growth or even kills it's opponents trying to exist in a confined area. Tomato leaves and stems will turn dark and this will work it's way to the main stem and kill the entire plant. If you can, use a pair of scissors and a 10% bleach to water solution in a spray bottle, spray the scissors and trim any and all discolored leaves on the entire plant. Take these clippings and throw them in the trash and not the compost pile. If you try to compost them, you can pass the disease to another or next years plants. If the entire plant is diseased, yank it up and throw the entire plant in the outgoing trash. Make sure you wash your hands with a antibacterial soap before and after you handle your tomato plants and the scissors too.
Tomato stems can withstand the bacteria in the soil but the leaves cannot. If you can, apply a mulch to keep the dirt from splashing up onto the leaves. When the plant is more developed, trim any of the lower stems closer to the ground to avoid this. Cow hay or wheat straw is a great mulch for the garden as it keeps weeds from growing and adds nitrogen to the soil as it decomposes. it can be plowed under in the spring and repeat with a fresh layer of 1-2 inches of fresh hay.
If you smoke or use tobacco products, wash your hands with an antibacterial soap before you handle your plants as the tobacco related Fusarium virus can infect and kill the tomato plant in a matter of hours. It can be introduced into your garden by another plant such as a pepper plant as well. If you can, grow your plants from seeds and not from stores that stack plants one atop others because as they water the ones on the top, diseases can be spread to the others. If you purchase plants, try to get young ones without blooms, as these are young and ones that have light green to a dark greenish blue tint as these are good signs of a healthy plant. Do not buy or handle the plants with curled leaves as this is the sign of one or more of other potential diseases. There are many other diseases to list and I will add them to this answer in the near future.
Some leave tips will turn brown, dry up and fall off. This is a sign of too much water. if the plant droops, all over, this is a sign of too little water.
How do you get rid of grub worms in your lawn without harming the environment?
The key here is not to confuse "least toxic" with the source of the product. Think back to the begining of the 20th century. The most commonly used pesticide/fungicide was lead. Although organic, certinly not the least toxic.
Also, I think a second qualifier would have to be that "it works in small amounts". So I am going to give the anser to the question as stated like this: What is the least toxic prodoct, that works, that will kill grub worms?
I think that it is also important to note that my answer is based on LD50 ratings. LD50 stands for: Lethal dose that it will take to kill 50% of the test subjects, in millograms of product, for kilograms of test subject. This is a standard, provided by th US government, and is the industry standard for pest control companies when determining toxoicity to humans.
Look for the acive ingrediant "imidacloprid"
Imidacloprid (IUPAC name (EZ)-1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine) is an insecticide origanally manufactured by Bayer Cropscience (part of the drug and chemical conglomerate Bayer AG). It is sold under a variety of trade names as it is now a post patent product. Some of the names include; Admire, Advantage, Merit, Confidor, Hachikusan, Premise, Prothor, and Winner. Merit, being the most widly known.
Specifically, it causes a blockage in a type of neuronal pathway (nicotinergic) that is more abundant in insects than in warmblooded animals (making the chemical selectively more toxic to insects than warmblooded animals). This blockage leads to the accumulation of acetylcholine, an important neurotransmitter, resulting in the insect's paralysis, and eventually death. It is effective on contact and via stomach action.
There is no known poisening of a human by imidacloprid.
Imidacloprid was first patented in the United States in U.S. Pat. No. 4,742,060, on May 3, 1988, by Nihon Tokushu Noyaku Seizo K.K. of Tokyo, Japan.
A systemic insecticide
Imidacloprid is taken up by plant roots and diffuses in the plant vascular system, where insects ingest it by sucking the plant fluids. The products Confidor and Admire are meant for application via irrigation, application to the soil, or on foliage. Merit is applied via a granular or liquid application and is labled primarily for grub worms.
Because of this pesticides slow movement in the plant, one application often gives season long control.
Sap describes what flatid leaf bugs eat. The insects in question (Flatidae insect family) have special mouthparts for handling internal plant liquids. A colorful example is the Madgascan flatid leaf bug (Phromnia rosea), whose adults look like a series of rose leaves with stem-like legs lounging along the sides of tree trunks and whose nymphs look like very thin white flowers.
What is the ratio of soap to water to spray lupines for aphids?
One tablespoon (14.79 milliliters) of soap to one gallon (3.79 liters) of water is the ratio of soap to water to spray lupines for aphids. A little bit will be effective since home-made and store-bought insecticidal soaps kill insect pests by the equivalent of drowning and suffocation. A large amount of soap will not have the environmental impact of huge amounts of high-concentrated vinegar even though it may be irritating to edible, ornamental or wildflowering plants.
How do you make a horse fly trap?
Horseflies are attracted by warm dark objects. Hang a black plastic ball below a light coloured textile gone. Place a trap-can on the top. A horsefly tries to bite the ball and after it flies away upwards and ends up to the trap can.
Try google "Horsefly Trap"
Why do ladybugs have black things hanging at the back?
I'm pretty sure that those are the wings hanging out.
Maybe they were to lazy to fold them back in properly. :P
Can you leave the bee hive in the attic?
No, it is not a good idea to leave a bee hive in an attic. An abandoned hive may attract foraging wildlife (including and other than bees) while a live hive may pose a real danger for domesticated pets and family members.
What do rollie pollie's like in their environment?
There actual name is Slater. They love dark,moist areas, like under rocks, logs ETC.
How do hornets expand their nest from a tiny ball to a large nest with combs inside?
They get more supply's for the nest.
What is the scientific name of the globe mallow bee?
Diadasia diminuta is the binomial, Latin or scientific name of the globe mallow bee. The bee gets its nectar and pollen only from the globe mallow [Sphaeralcea spp]. In return, it helps the plant by spreading some of the pollen on the male parts of other globe mallow plants.
The globe mallow bee doesn't live in hives. Instead, it lives just below ground surface. In its underground home, each offspring has its very own room. Above ground, the globe mallow bee builds a chimney- or turret-like structure at the entrance. Scientists still don't know why the structure is built
What insect keeps it's own garden?
Good insects that will protect your garden are lady bugs, lace wings, praying mantis just to name a few. They will eat the other insects that will try to eat your plants.
What is the end of an insect whose name ends in the letters '-ic'?
There's no one look to the end of an insect whose name ends in the letters '-ic'. For example, the name 'benthic' is a shortened, abbreviated way of referring to 'benthic macroinvertebrates'. The term 'benthics' identifies such insects, and non insects, as residents of shallow stream bottoms.
So there's a variety of examples to choose from the 'benthic' population. Three common examples of varied ends are those of craneflies [of the family Tipulidae within the order Diptera], mayflies [of the order Ephemeroptera], and stoneflies [of the order Plecoptera]. The cranefly has a pointed, tailless end. The mayfly has an end out of which grow three tails: three as in the word 'may'. The stonefly has an end out of which grow two tails.
These aren't bees, these are wasps. You should bite the bullet and call a pest control pro, because attacking a wasp hive in a confined space like a crawlspace can be very dangerous indeed. You should be able to have this done for between 85 and 125 dollars. If they really are bees, call a beekeeper because killing honeybees is illegal. Beekeepers will come and remove a colony for free because they keep and use the colony for honey production and crop pollination.
Highly doubt it.
Grubs turn it your "June Bugs"
what you need is a granule with the ingredient Imodiclorpid.
put this out and water it in good but not too much and be patient
Does a yellow jackets emit a distress signal when it is killed?
Yes, they do, and it can attract others to the area.
Yes, carpenter bees can eat through wood.
Specifically, the bee in question (Xylocopa spp) favors nesting within wood. The nest is made by rasping mandibles - down around the mouthparts and on both sides of the head - against wood. The end-product will be a main tunnel with only one entrance/exit and tunnelets branching off the main thoroughfare.
What should you do if a ladybugs dying?
Ladybugs die by either spiders, rain, trapped in a closed structure such as a sealed bottle, or age.
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I researched this question and found that yes you can eat garden snails, although they are not the most recommended snail to eat. Helix aspersa (small grey snail) and Helix pomatia (or Roman snail) are more popular.
You can use garden snails from your garden, but snails from your supermarket in case the snail has any pesticides that could be harmful. If you prepare your Helix Aspersa (Garden snail) the right way then you can definitely eat it. I hope I helped you!
