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Still have whiteflies
"Omelet" wrote in message news In article , "Marie Dodge" wrote: Too bad you can't find and dump a bunch of ladybug larvae... IME, natural predators work better than any pesticides if you can introduce them in great enough numbers. We're not rich enough to buy the numbers we would need to control this whietfly and mite invasion. Also, it's well known here the ladybugs and other beneficial insects/bugs don't hang around. In 48 hours they're gone and you're back where you started but with a lighter wallet. Note I said "larvae". ;-) Those can't fly. I collected a couple of hundred ladybugs a few years ago in the parkinglot at work one night. They were all over the cars near a street lamp! Guess it was a migration of some sort. Brought them home and have had a lot of baby ones around ever since. Guess they laid their eggs before leaving. :-) Wish I could find some free insects that eat spidermites and whitefly and their larvae. Tomorrow I'm going to hit them with Need Oil and a dab of soap again. -- Peace! Om "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein |
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