 Garden
Pests
Description of Insect
- Metallic blue green beetles,
- golden colored wings
- medium sized white grubs with brown heads
- Found east of the Mississippi
Description of Damage
- grubs chew off roots and stems
adults feed on flowers, leaving skeletonized leaves. lays eggs under leaves
Attacks
- Corn, bean, cucurbits, cabbage, carrot, eggplant, pea, potato,
radishes, lettuce, roses spreads Bacterial diseases
Organic Controls:
- Floating cover
- Handpicking adults, larvae.
- Delay planting
- Japanese Beetle Traps comes with a lure that attracts them.
- Barriers Milky Spore Disease
Safe Botanicals:
- Cayenne Pepper (Tabasco sauce)
- Garlic
- Pyrethrium
- Dr. Bronners Peppermint soap can be sprayed at 5 drops per quart water.
- Garden Grade DE can be dusted to control.
- Neem can be dusted on plants to control. always test for strength. If it doesn't kill
then make stronger.
- check out using Essential Oils such as tea tree oil, pennyroyal oil, etc.
- A sample formula for spraying: in a quart water filled near to top add: 5 drops
Tabasco sauce 5 drops Dr. Bronners peppermint soap or Jungle Rain
soap 5 drops garlic oil or crushed or store bought spray on leaves and directly on bug.
test for strength to avoid damage to plants. Pyrethrium can be dusted around the plants.
- A good dust mixture is:
- 1 part Pyrethrium
- 1 part Garden Grade DE
- 1 part alfalfa
meal
- 1/8 part cayenne pepper
dust around plants and under leaves, don't water for 24 hrs
A NOTE ABOUT SOAP:
- Do not use soaps that are
chemically made or that have strange chemical additives or preservatives. Instead use only
natural soap, either citrus or peppermint based are best . Use only a very small amount of
soap and use only when necessary. for more information on soap From
Using Soap to Using Ultra Fine Oil
Natural Predators
The Invisible Gardener
Last Update: 12/26/2012
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