Garden pests

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dang.. BT
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sevin to the rescue!.. dropped like sawflies

Wow, those were ugly! Glad you found out what they were!

I was gonna say get them even if you don't know what they were, when you see them en masse like that it's never a good thing

Right, Jen...usually butterfly cats are solitary.....

caught my neighbors cat yesterday in the havahart trap - cat was not happy at all

What did you do with it???? Hope you don't have a Vietnamese restaurant nearby.

eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww LOL

Victor! Cut that out! Bill is too nice to do that....right?

let it out carefully

Memory was counting on that, Bill!

^_^

Found my third wheel bug today. I know they eat bugs but I wish they would stop eating my bees.

wow freaky!!

YIKES

Have never seen one, don't want to!

Hope for a praying mantis instead.

So that's what they're called! Our wild bees are vicious so i wouldn't mind losing a few bees.

The ground nesting bees can be vicious. However some of them may be wasps. Some people can tell the difference.

the wasps I've run into are a differnt color than bees. Yheir legs also tend to hang like landing gear(wasps)

landing gear.. good way to put it

We're prone to carpenter bees which like to chew little round holes near the roof if we let them. These bees are big and fat. They must have gone to live in a neighbor's house this year. And, yes, Iris, we have the annoying ground varieties too, but I try not to get close enough to ID if they're wasps. I don't feel like I'm a true gardener if I don't get stung at least once a year!

I will opt out of true, then.

We have a huge nest of ground nesting yellow jackets here. The rain from tropical storm irene must have washed out a hole because there is a huge hole under my rhododendron and the bees don't like when you go near there. They start coming out at you.

I had a huge nest in my compost pile....I poured in a gallon of bleach.....had to, couldn't get near that part of the yard....

Dh is going to get them out by bugging them with a stick, then spraying them. I told him it sounded like a sure fire way to get stung! lol The nest is right near my house and hose. I was watering some pots and spray the water in there by accident. That's when they started chasing me off.

You need to be very careful with hornets.....

Better him than me lol. Stings don't hurt him that much, I would probably cry.

Stings are very painful!

I'm getting itchy just thinking about the bees/wasp creatures. My grandfather was one of those people who kept bees and loved to show off by taking off his shirt by the hive. Seems to me those were just cute honey bees and not these outlaw insects.

Tell him to spray at night after they have all gone back.

we had to do that here the other day. I found a nest in my compost bin. Knocked out the nest today, all the yellow jackets are gone.

glad that you weren't stung.

Lots of wasps around, big ones I've never seen before, it's like the storm blew them in from somewhere

Took a walk around the house and wanted to show my sil my heuchera in my shade garden....HOLEY MOLEY something just chewed holes in EVERYTHING in that garden, the hydrangeas, the hostas the heuchs....holes in everything, then I looked up at my ornamental cherry and that has holes in a lot of leaves.....couldn't find the pest though...I've never seen anything like it, also my Red Bud which is on the same side of the house but farther out (in the sun) lots of leaves on there have holes... oh brother!!! Could it be a bunch of different things or one thing, for instance slugs on the hostas and some kind of catepillar on the trees? but all the holes looked the same. Never had a problem this scale before

you are not alone Jen

and then there was one less groundhog in the world!!

got the guy yesterday

mine was looking at me though the front door yesterday.. gggrrrr

Hubby is tired of the one down back in the field, he's done w/have a heart trap....the gun is out. It has eaten the corn, munched on assorted other veggies, dug massive tunnels in the field. Brian fell down because his bad foot landed in an entrance and thats when the gun came out. Besides, it has only gotten bigger and smarter as time goes on.
We've tried cayenne pepper, smoke bombs and have-a-heart. The field is just to big to cover, so DH sits and waits w/the gun.