Re: On horizontal pits

On 4/20/2010 8:28 AM, Shawn Martin wrote:
Omelet wrote:
In article <hqftkk$j5s$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Cleatarrior <cleatarrior@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You should be able to find them on line at the least and some nurseries
carry them too. Fly parasites, beneficial nematodes, ladybird beetles,
lacewing eggs (the larvae are great for scale and mealy bug), some
types
of wasps work for tomato hornworm but imho BT works better. Praying
mantis egg cases are also available.

All kinds of great alternatives to pesticides and often works better.
I'm all for letting nature fight its own battles out as much as
possible.

Our potted plants had tons of lacewings one summer, that was the year
we didn't have to treat for spider mites!

I'll bet. :-) Pesticides (Pyrethrine) would not kill scale. The
lacewing larvae did them in totally. Never did have scaled after that.

I still have a standing population of ladybugs, that I initially put out
a decade or so ago.

Very cool. I wish we had a warmer clime so I could seed a population of lightning bugs.


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