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The three levels of defense in your garden
- 1. The Three Levels Of Defense In Your Garden *Healthy Plants *Invite More Bugs To Your Garden *Spray Sparingly
- 2. First Level of Defense Healthy Plants • The best defense against pest and disease is a healthy plant. • The right plant in the right place and planted at the right time. • Healthy soil that is rich in organic matter and teaming with microbes. • Water the roots not the leaves. Mulch to avoid splashing.
- 3. Exclusion • http://www.johnnyseed s.com/tools- supplies/row-covers- and-accessories/row- cover/ • Agribon+ AG-15 – 118" x 50' • Insect Barrier 50 Foot Long $28 • 90% light transmission
- 4. Hand Picking, Lures And Traps • Hand pick insects or insect eggs into a pail of soapy water when there are only a few insects. • Use a heavy spray of water to wash off insects. • Use lures and traps to cut down on the population or to alert you to the presence of harmful insects in the garden. • Use mulches to keep splashing water off your plant leaves and cut down on diseases. . Good air circulation will help keep leaves dry.
- 5. Second Level Of Defense *97% of all insects are neutral or beneficial to the garden. *Plant flowers, herbs, native shrubs and trees that attract beneficial insects and pollinators to the garden. *Have wet areas and shallow ponds where insects, frogs and lizards can find water. *Put up Bat Houses. *Bird Houses?
- 6. Life cycle
- 7. Suzanne Wainwright-Evans • “When You Kill a Beneficial insect You take on it’s Job” • https://joegardener.co m/podcast/049-when- good-bugs-eat-bad- bugs-the-business-of- beneficial-insects/ http://www.bugladyconsulting.com/suzanne% 20wainwright%20evans.htm
- 8. Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies, or syrphid flies, Bees have 2 pair of wings and flies have one The larvae is the insect eating stage
- 9. Tachinid flies • Tachinid flies most commonly parasitize the immature life stages (eggs, larvae or caterpillars, nymphs, and/or pupae) of beetles, butterflies, and moths, but also earwigs, grasshoppers, sawflies, and true bugs. Feather legged fly (Trichopoda pennipes) attacks stink bugs and leaf footed bugs, including squash bug and green stink bug. Istocheta aldrichi parasitizes adult Japanese beetles.
- 10. Lady Bug Larvae
- 11. Green Lacewing
- 12. Paper Wasp
- 13. Parasitic Wasp
- 14. Soldier Beetle • Soldier beetle larvae feed on the eggs and larvae of beetles, grasshoppers, moths and other insects, and adult soldier beetles feed on aphids and other soft-bodied insects. Plant marigolds and goldenrod to attract these benefical garden helpers.
- 15. Beneficial Nematodes • These microscopic, worm- like parasites actively hunt, penetrate and destroy over 230 different pests including fleas, fungus gnats, black vine weevils and white grubs. Naturally occurring, they are not harmful to people, pets, plants or earthworms and will continue working for 18 months.
- 16. Learn to Identify Insects • https://bugguide.net/node/view/15740 • https://www.whatsthatbug.com/ • http://www.saferbrand.com/advice/insect- library • https://www.arbico- organics.com/category/problem-solver-guide • http://www.bugladyconsulting.com/Homeow ner%20help%20on%20BLC.htm
- 17. Where To Buy Beneficial Insects • https://greenmethods.com/ • http://bugladyconsulting.com/Suppliers%20of %20beneficial%20insects.htm • https://www.gardensalive.com/ • http://www.natural-insect-control.com/ • https://www.groworganic.com/
- 18. Alyssum
- 19. Yarrow
- 20. Coneflower
- 21. Aster
- 22. Goldenrod
- 23. Bronze Fennel
- 24. Dill
- 25. Basil
- 26. Third Level of Defense Spray The Least Toxic Organic Sprays • Safer insecticidal soap • Neem oil • BT