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    This morning I found Green Lacewing bugs all over my plants. I started to freak out. I did not know what they were. I looked them up in my insect guide and found out they are beneficial insects. To my delight I found that they eat aphids,mealybugs, spider mites, leafhopper nymphs, moth eggs, scale thrips, whiteflies and more. My lucky day! Go good bugs!

    #2
    Congrats! But, ya know... critters are attracted to food... I wonder if a sudden influx of predator bugs (your lacewings) means there are/were "bad" prey bugs there already? I'd look, but do nothing drastic... just watch nature take its course. Sounds like you have a great micro-ecosystem going in your garden.
    FFOF +extra castings, compost, coco
    Veg 8 bulb T5 (blue)
    Flower 600w HPS
    alfalfa meal, bone meal, FF Big Bloom, Down-to-Earth Liquid Bloom
    1st grow White Widow
    Now growing GG4 auto and photo

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      #3
      Flowers will be your best friends if you want to keep those lacewings around, and have them lay some eggs, even! Most beneficials need pollen to reproduce, so if you can have something flowering in your garden as much of the time as possible, that will help keep a healthy eco system. Plants like yarrow, and other small flowers are great forage, but most flowers will work. I usually let some of my vegetables go to seed for this reason.
      Congrats on the Lace wings!!
      Organic Soil,
      with molasses,
      In a Greenhouse with,
      Redneck engineering.

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      • D.A.A.S.69
        D.A.A.S.69 commented
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        I bet desertdan, will get it all fixed up, because he always grows some awesome looking bud every year, except when the locusts or grasshoppers beat him to his plants.

      #4
      I gotta get me some of those "good" bugs just in case, but what will they eat if I don't have "bad" bugs?







      I am pretty much bugless this year. The grasshopper infestation I had last year did not materialize this grow season. I've had to kill only a few nymphs.Thank Holy Random Chance! So this is what a lacewing looks like.

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      • GreenhouseEffect
        GreenhouseEffect commented
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        Love that Imoji top right!!
        The benificials will only eat pests, and a little pollen so they can reproduce. I f they run out of pests to eat, they'll just fly off and go stalk there quarry some place else.
        Nice lookin Lacewing, appears to have the grissly remains of a pest insect in her jaws!

      #5
      Great photo. I put out 10 pounds of semaspore bait and it has worked well so far. Early on I had lots of grasshopper midges. I put out the bait 2 times and it did the job but I am seeing a few more now. I might have to lay out another $40 for another 5 pounds to put out between rains. I am already seeing many tiny wasps so I think maybe no bud borers this year.

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      • starramus
        starramus commented
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        Semaspore has to be doing beaucoup business this year since the Nolo bait facility burned down. I had Semaspore ordered from Arbico https://www.arbico-organics.com/prod...RoCpYcQAvD_BwE, but cancelled the order when the hoppers fortunately did not show up. Good luck with those sonsabitches!

      #6
      While we're on the subject, please, everyone be careful with the pesticides you put out. Weed growers' misuse of chemicals in the environment is starting to become a topic in the wildlife conservation communities (especially here on the west coast) and I would hate to see us get a bad rep (and more scrutiny/regulations).
      FFOF +extra castings, compost, coco
      Veg 8 bulb T5 (blue)
      Flower 600w HPS
      alfalfa meal, bone meal, FF Big Bloom, Down-to-Earth Liquid Bloom
      1st grow White Widow
      Now growing GG4 auto and photo

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      • desertdan
        desertdan commented
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        I use only OMRI approved insect control.

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