Cala, i do interchange with Safer soap and Liquid Sevin. am aware of the bugs immunity to certains substance. sometimes i do premix dishwashing soap with some vegetable oil added to the water and use also as spray.
TG i don't see those grubs this year. last year we were infested with the white grubs. i got rid of them using Diazinon granules. knock on wood, there aren't any around.
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Maybe it's June bugs eating holes in mine. I'm too afraid to go out at night and see what's eating them with the bear roaming around.
Too bad they don't make a bear repellent like they do for deer and rabbits.
I do not mean to be a sales person for Bayer systemic.............but I used the Bayer tree and shrub systemic on a potted brug that cucumber beetles were eatng quite lustily and all the new leaves have no holes!!!! And I use the Bayer rose food and systemic for the spider mites. The first one lasts 1 year and the other 6 weeks. I could never spray daily or even weekly............. systemic is so much cleaner and easier.
LOL Shirley :D! i'd rather contend with bugs rather than bear. i do not think i can handle that! as it is, hate to admit, bug gives me the creeps. i have to use a long nose plyers to get them out. i probably would pass out if i saw a bear in person LOL!
I can just picture MaVie passed our under the brugs after seeing a bear!!
Kell, the Bayer systemic works on spider mites?? That's great news, as the Merit/Marathon isn't an aracnicide(did I spell that right?) I need to pick up some for the Jungle House.
Did I tell you about the little green tree frog that scared the bejeebies out of me when it jumped on my shirt? I was in the Jungle House pruning and must have touched the stem it was sitting on.
I've found several frogs in mine in the past couple of days. One was about 2" and white!
Wow, a white one!! I've seen the green, gray and brown ones and they do seem to love the brugs, probably because they know they can find a meal of bugs on them!!
Cala....I just checked again and YES.........the Bayer Tree and Shrub systemic that lasts a year does not, but the Bayer 2 in 1 systemic rose and flower care that lasts 6 weeks does! (or it says it does) I heard at a nursery that Bayer has bought up the patents on other systemics and they will be the only ones that produce them now.
frog story........ when Tommy was about 3 years old, we were in the courtyard doing garden work. I had inadvertently hit a poor frog and killed him. He was laying on his back all stretched out. It was terrible. My boy started crying, screaming for me to call 911 (he had just learned to call 911 for emergencies). I knelt down and quietly explained to him that the doctors could not fix the frog that he was in heaven now with God and that God would take care of him. My boy was sobbing. It was terrible. I told him we should say a prayer and then we would bury him. So we each stood over the poor frog and said a prayer out loud. Then I got the shovel to scoop him up and as I went under him with the shovel the frog jumped a mile and took off. Tommy started jumping up and down screaming,"IT IS A MIRACLE MOMMY, A MIRACLE!!"
Kell, that's so sweet!! We have frogs here that play dead when you pick them up. They have yellow on the bottom. They stick their legs straight out behind themselves, but cover their eyes like playing peek-a-boo.
MaVieRose,
I have those tiny, needle thin, green, flying insects on my brug leaves. I bought Safer's Sticky Stick tags and they catch those little brug leaf eating brats. I put the tags on yesterday and there were lots of the insects stuck to the tags this morning.
I cut each tag in half and used a small piece of 2 way tape to attach to the yellow tag and then to a leaf. I have half tags on all of my brug plants now. This morning there were lots of insects of every description stuck to the tags including flies.
Joydie, must look like a new kind of brug flower waving in the air!
Joydie,
thank for the info. am afraid to use any sticking thingy on the plants cause of the nosey hummingbird that find it's way on every nook and cranny in the garden.
u mentioned in ur other thread about a flying thingy called earwigs. this is what i find about earwigs ... http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Pests/earwigs1.htm.
last night i was outside, saw this flying bug the body is green with almost white wings. would like to know what the name of it is, since am not too familiar with insect names. if i knew the name, i could do research and learn how to eradicate.