Garden Pests
The term 'garden pest' generally refers to whatever is not wanted in the garden. Specifically, it tends to include destructive bacteria and fungi; invasive plants; and voracious bugs, birds and animals. Questions typically refer to a pest's characteristic presence, potential damage, and timely control.
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Try hanging those little Christmas ornaments up. Birds are attracted to the color red and just peck at it enough to ruin the...
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Also known as tobacco worms, or hookworms. Either use an insect killer like sevin dust, which I dont recommend, cause it kills...
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Gently sprinkle Borax soap on the bedding to exterminate fleas from the bed, and other places where fleas might be present...
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Seed ticks blow in on any breeze. They do not breed and muliply in there. Ticks must have a living host to complete the life...
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NOT EVERY BODY LIKES FROGS! that is the popular answer from people who want them in their garden........SOME DO NOT. A good way...
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For much the same reason that they eat the plants in our gardens. Remember that paper is made from plant materials and they...
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Salt kills any plant by causing water to move out of their root cells instead of in. This causes cells to die, and if enough are...
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Sctland or Australia?
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weedin is to pull or hoe the weeds from your garden
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After every layer of food, waste, or what have you, add a nice, equal layer of fresh sawdust. Fine wood chips will also work, but...
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Go out to the nest in the evening when all the wasps (ground-nesting "bees" are really various species of wasps) are in the nest,...
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Think of soil as a mixture of materials, some of them living (fungi and bacteria) and some of them non-living (minerals, water,...
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It depends on if your dog is allergic to honeybees. If it is then they could kill it easily. The best way to save it would be to...
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I live in an area with LOTS of deer and I use (this may sound disgusting) human pee! Not in the garden, but around the perimeter....
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No, no real remedies. It is potato blight,. caused by a fungus, usually airborne. It is the cause for the Great Potato famine...
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A tennis raquet is very good.
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AnswerIt possibly could be one of the many dahlia species. They can occur in many forms including the size you mentioned on the...
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At the local level, a Fast Africanized Bee Identification System (FABIS) test can be performed. Starting with a sample of 50 to...
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The best thing you can do is contact a garden center or Burpees Seed Co. and get either Fox or Wolf urine spray. Carefully...
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some have hairs on their legs or like spiders sharp tiny spike things. go figure
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A ladybird beetle, also known as a ladybug has one main enemy. The bird and spider, praying mantis, and some other big things...
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The black powder you mention is sooty mold. This grows on the sticky substance that is secreted by scale insects or aphids. Ants...
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For insects, the best thing you can do is get a house gecko to eat them. Especially roaches and termites, the house gecko is the...
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You need a good mix of carbon and nitrogen rich materials. You can put just about anything in a compost heap, but having a good...
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Rhus tox. is one of the major homeopathic remedies for mumps with hard swollen glands, fever, and a white or yellow coated tongue...
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Dank, Chronic, A+, there are many names but of course most of the time people will say it is better than it is.
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Sugar, because they like sweet food items.
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see a shrink and get over it Do you people not realize that bees are not a problem and without them mankind would starve. Get a...
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Yes, there are energy joules in a peanut. One peanut releases 1,880 physicist calories, or 1.88 food calories. Energy is...
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AnswerI guess it does the same thing as other bugs whom also eat slugs. First it opens the slugs inside where the stomache is,...
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One of the easiest methods I have discovered for killing yellow jackets is very effective. Here is what you will need: a glass...
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for the same reason you eat. its food.
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shoot them Get a Jack Russel terrier.
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In terms of size, bulk, and weight, the goliath beetle is the world's largest insect. It is weighs more than 8 mice. It's about...
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AnswerIt would be called a boa spider because o fits movement and color.
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Perhaps it means that there is dampness or other circumstances that they like. They can live in cracks in the soil or in rock...
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A weedkiller is also know as a herbicide. herbicide is a type of pesticide because weeds are also pests like insects. the most...
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Weeds suck-up a lot of water. So your plants won't get as much water as they need. In the end they'll die The main reasion...
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every continent, except for Antarctica they may be in your backyard or in ahiveA Bee Hive.
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sort of, very different to ours
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A ladybird beetle, also known as a ladybug has one main enemy. The bird and spider, praying mantis, and some other big things...
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paper napkins, pet hair ,wood chips , hay , leaves ,old species , pine needles, paper or wood
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if you don't compost the garbage will stay there a million years and that's even worse afriacian americian will die there because...
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You can reap the fruits either green or red. Once they get sufficiently big, they can be picked green and ripened off the vine in...
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Highly doubt it. Grubs turn it your "June Bugs" what you need is a granule with the ingredient Imodiclorpid. put this out and...
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Picking Leaf Lettuce Just break the leaves you want off from near the base, usually starting with the outer leaves if they're not...
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you use a tissue and wipe it off then get spray with cleaner and wipe off
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AnswerIf they swarm around, then YOU jump into water and submerge your body, or make a LOT OF SMOKE, like starting a small fire...
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Answerdust the flowers with cyanpepper,Eat the rabbits. That doesn't work. I've used chili powder, hot sauce, onion powder and...
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spiders dont really sleep at all, they have periods of less activity.
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yes
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One way (if you are near trees or something you can tie it to) is to take a brown paper bag (any will do even a fast food bag)...
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they get horny
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Please look up the Yellow Garden Spider , better know as the "ARGIOPE AURANTIA". Look at it and compare it to your spider and see...
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got a picture?
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Well, you're going to have to tell me what kind of insect. You should post it on my wall. Search for elvistheferrett, then I...
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The phrase '× Citrofortunella microcarpa' is the scientific name of the the Calamansi or Calamondin fruit tree of such southeast...
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The spent mushroom suppliers appear to be in Pennsylvania. Visit www.mushroomcompost.org. From that website, there is the subsite...
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Radishes, mustard, and cress all grow rapidly. In some climates, zucchinis do also.
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I don't have any idea of how large an area is an " allotment ", but in our organic garden, our small potato patch has several pie...
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Chenopods [Chenopodium spp] may come from any one of six of the seven continents. They aren't found on Antarctica. They're...
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Naivety, ignorance or contempt. People think a plant is "Pretty" so they buy it and plant it in their garden. They haven't...
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Every 2 months after the bloom cycle until late summer
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yes the best bet is to bake them
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Blades sharp Any weed killer should do the trick. Just make sure that your blades are sharp very sharp.
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noseeums in Tennesseeyes... there is water near
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hand pick,get a duck,use organic insecticide or insecticide for tomatoes
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well easier said than done, but you are going to need a plastic cup and some sort of top that is THICK will fit nicely on top....
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Sounds like a horn worm that eats tomato plants.Google it for a picture.
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Ideally, the more closely farmers apply (natural) biological fertilizer products to seeding time, the better. It is important to...
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This is a very difficult problem, and the answer depends on how determined that cat is. For example, a cat that lives in an...
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Are you sure those are eggs? They could be spider mites! Or they could possibly be aphids, which come in a variety of colors.
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drown them
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If it is not the young fruit or seed pod it may be a gall.
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they mainly live in seasonal areas. They are able to withstand the winter conditions, and thrive through the summer. Honey bees...
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Yes. Bleach contains phosphates and nitrates. Even though phosphates are needed by the plants, access phosphates is not good for...
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Ladybugs can be a gardeners best friend. They are often used to control such insect pests as aphids, scales, and mites, which...
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It adds chemicals to the soil like nitrogen and potassium
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there isn't any difference
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Yes, in a sense. As worms break down organic matter, they produce waste material called vermicast. This is also known as worm...
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Rumex crispus is the scientific name of yellow dock weed. The specific adjective 'crispus' refers to the plant's curly-shaped...
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Manure is manure is manure. Humanure, cow manure, horse manure, it's all poo. Compost manure is just manure that's been composted...
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It all depends on where you live if you live in one state other then MN there are gangs that hate the and destroy them! Thats why...
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Insects, bugs, little animals, plants, spiders and other arachnids, birds, rodents, fungi, bacteria, etc.
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There are over 5,000 species of ladybugs [Coccinellidae family]. Just about every place on earth has their own native ladybugs....
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I started hanging CD's around my garden and put foil on the bottom of my tomato plants. The quick motion and reflection scares...
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5116 Williamsburg Rd., Brentwood, TN 37027 Tel. (615) 370-4301 Orders. (800) 441-BUGS Fax. (615) 370-0662 URL...
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exactly 12.8 oz. A gallon has 128 ounces.
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Three tablespoons per gallon of water !!!
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usually on the underside of leaves
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