Tag: badcritters
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Bucket Pond Make And Manage
I just can’t bring myself to like mosquitoes. They suck your blood, make you itch and can give you some nasty diseases. Certainly entry grounds into my BadCritters club :). So I take much pleasure in my bucket pond’s mosquito killing power. It was so easy and cheap to make. Maintenance varies from rarely to…
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BadCritters: Tiger Moth Caterpillar
The caterpillar of this BadCritter will munch your salad greens just as happily as your non-edibles. Their hairy bodies have given them the nickname ‘woolly bears’. I picked the caterpillar below of my snow pea plants and after its photo shoot it got dispatched 馃檪 . Bit of a shame as they are amazing to…
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Pyrethrum Natural Insecticide
I always try to use pyrethrum spray and Dipel over man-made insecticides.聽 That said, my favourite method of pest control in the garden is to squish the BadCritters or eat the vegetables before they do. 馃檪 My main target critter is aphids and caterpillars but it also controls thrips and whitefly. Why do I…
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BadCritters: Small Pointed Snail
I don’t see many examples of this very shy BadCritter in my garden but I suspect there are lots of them hidden in the leaf litter. This one was munching on some radish leaves and his friends will like all of your leafy green edibles. Shame they are so cute but they are my radishes…
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BadCritters: Common Garden Weevil
I actually think these little guys are cute but they still get an automatic squishing when I find them munching on my edible plants 馃檪 . They leave tell tale little holes in the leaves of your greens, fruit trees, strawberries, beans, peas and the like. Their grubs live under ground munching on plant roots.…
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BadCritters: Aphids
These little plant suckers are often not noticed until their numbers are out of control.聽 Another sign is that are often seen with ants that are “herding” them for the honeydew the aphids secret. Species: One of the many in the aphid superfamiy Aphidoidea. Identification: Damage: Aphids suck the goodness out of the plants and…
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Dipel Caterpillar Control
I don’t know why it has taken me so long to use this method of controlling that most common of gardening’s BadCritters, the pesky caterpillar. Whilst I will still more often than not reach for the聽pyrethrum spray,聽Dipel has a place in my garden shed from now on. It comes in a powdered form and is…
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BadCritter: White Cabbage Butterfly
Oh but I hate these beautiful little butterflies. They are particularly active in spring and early summer. I don’t see them in January and February in Perth and suspect it is just too hot. I squish them and their caterpillars, turning them back into the soil. Species: Pieris rapae Identification: Adult: Eggs: Caterpillar: Damage:…
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Homemade Fruit Fly Traps
It is that time of year when the fruit flies are buzzing around my compost bins and worm farms in droves. This is despite me covering the top layer of kitchen scraps in both with a layer of newspaper to reduce the infestation. So, this year I decided to try making homemade traps. I asked…
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BadCritters
In the edible garden especially you will come across organisms that you can鈥檛 help but categorise as good or bad based on their affect on your main goal, eating home grown produce. Very human of me but please hear me out. I also try not to spray insecticides/fungicides and prefer to let GoodCritters (and me…
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