Dag nabit buggers! I'm not sure if I hate them or aphids more!
Aphids I can deal with. These things are unstoppable!
Japanese beetles. I collect them in a plastic bag & freeze them for my chickens.
How do you get them in the bags?
@CraeftSmith you just pick them up
@btroje I don't have enough time to do that at an effective rate :/
@CraeftSmith Retired I have nothing but time. There are traps that attract them with pheromones. But I like gathering mass quantities in my restored prairie.
@Countrywoman
I had several large pitcher plants that I fed regularly with Japanese Beetles I collected off my plants They got huge!
Japs!
Not an acceptable word. Cracker!
@Countrywoman
Dinks!
@bigpawbullets Dual income no kids?
@Countrywoman
Um... yes, that's exactly it.
@bigpawbullets
Whatever label you slap on them, they are eating my Aroids! They are devouring my Callas from the inside out, and making hash out of my Amorphophallus and Arisaemas.
They can't die hard enough for me
@Leafhead
Went for a walk this morning.
Entrance path to our front door.
You're not alone in your fight.
@bigpawbullets
Ouch!
Yes... I am quickly being overrun by these little devil's. The traps fill up quickly. I joke that I am attracting them from my neighbors' yards
You could be attracting them. I read that the bait in the traps can attract them for up to a mile.
They look irritating.
Posted by JolantaHoverflies, not to be confused with wasps.
Posted by FrostyJimI picked my first 2024 rhubarb... so I made cobbler - yum!
Posted by FrostyJimI picked my first 2024 rhubarb... so I made cobbler - yum!
Posted by FernappleThe pond and stone bridge are lush with growth now.
Posted by FernappleIts foxglove (Digitalis ) time.
Posted by JolantaEarthworms are amazing workers.
Posted by JolantaLadybirds, the gardeners friend.
Posted by JolantaLacewings are useful in the garden.
Posted by FrostyJim...as you Sow, So Shall you Reap
Posted by FrostyJimSurprise! Alaska has farm country too.
Posted by FrostyJimSurprise! Alaska has farm country too.
Posted by JolantaHappy hormones.
Posted by FernappleThe little woodland garden, is a symphony of blue, purple and white now. Hyacinth, Honesty, and Ornithogalum.
Posted by KateOahuThis morning I went to a class for making a terrarium with native plants at the Waikiki Community Center, which is about three blocks from where I live.
Posted by FrostyJimToo cold to plant outside for another month here in Wasilla Alaska.
Posted by FrostyJimToo cold to plant outside for another month here in Wasilla Alaska.