Garden Insects

Try your local nursery. If they don't have them ask . Perhaps ther is a reason why they don't carry them.

Grasshoppers will go into sheds, buildings, crevices, and other places when it rains. Some grasshoppers will just stay on the grass or whatever vegetation is nearby when it rains.

No, pregnant ladybugs are not very fat. The female of the insects in question (Coccinellidae family) is a bit larger naturally than the male. Two to three months may pass between mating and situating spring and summer quotas of 2,000 eggs in clusters of 10 to 50 on the undersides of food and host plant leaves.

It depends on the kind of snail from what I've read garden snails( just plain ol' common ones) will live from about 7 to 10 years and Giant African Snails( the huge ones) can live around 9 years depends on how well they are treated.

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Worm compost is a fantastic soil conditioner that is available free of charge for those who are involved in worm composting.

If you want to sell it I suggest you compare the prices of some local worm compost producers in your area.

If you are just entering the market it would be best to offer your worm compost for less than the established competitors of yours.

Allergies, fear, hearsay, misinformation, previous experience and protective instincts describe why people do not like bees. People dislike and/or fear bees from allergic reactions of their own or of others. They try to make inside and outside environments as safe and trouble-free as possible for children and the elderly, the reactive and the sick.

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The four main nematode diseases are known as foliar, lesion, pin and root knot. Foliar nematode disease is controlled by spraying leaves. The other three typically are controlled by soil drenches.

An individual weight of 0.0007407532 ounces (0.021 grams) is the result that most likely will be obtained from weighing seven-spotted ladybugs. The above-mentioned weight represents what an adult seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata) is expected to weigh. It may be a bit more for a mature female than for a male since adult females tend to be a bit bigger and heavier than adult males.

They only look like they are reproducing but they are not, they are just transfering pollen from one bee to another. Bee's have specific jobs in the hive, and one be may be a gathering bee while the other may be a bee that takes it back to the hive.

You can't directly compare a bee's vision with your own because they are different. A bee has a compound eye which does not form finely detailed images. What a bee sees is more of a mosaic. One advantage of this is the bee is very sensitive to movement and can separate distinct events of around 1/300 second, wheras our persistence of vision means we can only separate events of more than 1/50 second apart.

A bee's color vision is also different. They see well into the ultra-violet part of the spectrum, which is invisible to us, but they are not so sensitive at the red end of the spectrum, so to them deep red is black.

They are also sensitive to plane polarized light and use this to locate the sun even when the sky is completely overcast with cloud. This is important to them because they use the sun for navigation.

Yes, there are such things as leaf miners, whose feeding tunnels are filled with droppings and recognizable by species-distinct configurations. Leaf miners are fly (Diptera), moth (Lepidoptera), and sawfly (Symphyta) larvae that live inside and - thoughtfully for the hosts -- prey upon leaf tissues with the least amounts of cellulose or tannin.

In researching information on keeping a cricket as a pet, most online guides state that a cricket's brain is not very large in relation to its body mass. This statement is usually followed by the fact that they need a sponge or very shallow water to drink from, as their brains are "so small" that they will drown themselves attempting to drink from deeper standing water. (Not a very scientific answer I realize, but I figured this answer would be a good place holder in the meantime).

Yes. But the colors bees are most sensitive to are the ones in the ultraviolet range. So flowers look different the bees than they do to us. To them they look like they are glowing under a blacklight.

Cooler temperatures, less intense sunlight and rich soils of dry mixed and deciduous woodlands are the adaptations for the downy yellow violet [Viola pubescens]. The three conditions favor the wildflower's unusual yellow coloring. The plant's native range is southeastern Canada, from Ontario to Nova Scotia; and the northern United States of America, in Minnesota and south to Virginia.

Habitat accessible by strong-flying, wind-dispersed adults and conducive to creating, depositing and hatching eggs in food-filled, mating-friendly niches is what causes fruit flies. The insects in question need access to decaying, organic-rich sweets, such as fermenting fruit, for feeding larvae and to dry darkness for protecting pupae. They then need opportunities, after four days each in larval and pupal stages, to mate two days after emerging from pupation.

yes! they dont bite! but they will fly away

Introduction of natural enemies is one alternative control that growers can use besides employing different insecticides to protect crops from insect attack. It numbers among the most eco-friendly and effective of choices when the attacking insects are aphids and mealybugs, whose numbers easily are controlled by ladybugs, beneficial insects and natural predators. It works well with bait and repelling cropping, horticultural oils, insecticidal soaps, organic mulches, and row covers as well as with rigorous attention to correct heat, light, moisture and nutrient requirements.

Go out to the nest in the evening when all the wasps (ground-nesting "bees" are really various species of wasps) are in the nest, and the cooler temperatures make the wasps less active. Flood the nest with a garden hose and then quickly fill the entrance with mud and dirt to seal the insects inside.

Use a mixture of Sevin-XLR+ and canola or vegetable oil. The oil will act as an attractant and anti-evaporative. ... Malathion is non-selective but if you are not treating a large area, the collateral damage will be small Several "garden variety" insecticides are available.

On a HOT day, Mix 8 ounces of commercial wasp and hornet spray (chlorpyrifos and etc.) into a gallon of turpentine and spray it on the ground in the area with a pump-up sprayer. Remember, almost every chemical can be hazardous to someones health. This is a tried recipe.... not a recommended one. Use good judgment and read the labels. The label is the law.

Organic control is for the birds.

The introduction of natural enemies and the use of organic controls are ways to get rid of aphids without harming milkweed plants. Ladybugs tend to be the most beloved, diligent, intrepid beneficial insects to introduce and support when dealing with aphids. Horticultural oils against eggs and insecticidal soaps against immature and mature stages will not harm milkweeds or milkweed-lovers such as monarch butterflies.

Color and fragrance are two adaptations of insect-pollinated flowers. Flowering plants which benefit from insect pollinators need to call attention to themselves by arthropod-attractive scents and striking colors.

The comb cells in a bee hive are of a hexagonal (six sided) shape and have three main purposes.

1) Raising of brood. The queen bee will lay an egg in an empty cell and after three days the egg will change into a small larva. The other bees in the colony will then feed the larva with pollen and seal the cell with wax. After 21 days from the time that the egg was laid, the larva will have grown into a fully formed worker bee and will eat its way out of the sealed cell having sustained itself by eating the pollen that had been stored in its cell before it was sealed.

2) The worker bees, having collected nectar from various plants, will mix it with enzymes to produce honey and that honey will be deposited in a cell and allowed to ripen. When it is ripe, the worker bees will seal the cell with wax as above.

3) Pollen collected from plants will be stored in separate cells near the brood nest and used as a 'larder' for feeding larvae as above. Cells containing pollen don't need a wax cap.

Leave it be. Seeing as it's hatched, it should be able to fend for itself. It knows what it's doing ^^

2- 3 days for a pear tree to grow.