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| I'd like your opinions on the accuracy of this - found in the Gardening section of Pinterest. It's obviously not a complete listing, covers only 13 pests.
Someone posted a warning to know what you're killing before doing so. Wholeheartedly agree, but although I've gotten three insect ID books from the library, I'm often unable to figure what I'm seeing. Have killed two black widows, destroyed a hundred squash bug eggs, a bunch of squash bugs and some nymphs. Otherwise the bugs and I are coexisting peacefully here in Sugar Hill, GA. Rosie |
Here is a link that might be useful: 13 Garden Pests
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| It is a pretty good list although there are some obvious ones missing depending on the particular crops you grow. Plus many pests are regional only so may not affect you or bother you but not others. Many finding it more helpful to search by crop ie. common bean pests, common tomato pests, common cabbage pests, etc. There is a set for each veggie. And never forget Google Images - hundreds of pics of each and every pest you'd ever want to meet and many you never will. It never hurts to remind folks that the vast majority of bugs found in the average garden are either beneficials or, at worse, neutrals. Only a very small percentage actually due harm to the crops. Dave |
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| Georgia has a Master Gardener program. Check with them to see if they have online resources about pests in your area. Our California MG program has a link to IPM, which has all sorts of information about pests here. As Dave said, only a small percentage are harmful. |
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| rosie, you are actually off to a good start as far as learning to identify your garden visitors, both good and bad. Time spent with a good field book may help you classify insects into very broad categories such as caterpillars, beetles, truebugs, etc. From there, you might be able to go on-line and look up (for example) orange truebug with purple spots on roses. Dave is so right...it will be much easier to become familiar with pests since there are far fewer of them than the good guys. Some people find it difficult to recognize ANY kind of crawly thing as beneficial, sad to say. OR...you could just post your pictures here. We love to identify critters. |
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- Posted by rosiew 8 GA (rosemarywalsh@bellsouth.net) on Fri, Jun 22, 12 at 6:08
| My thoughts: lgteacher: will locate any help GAMG's offer. Good idea! Have done a cursory check online and couldn't find. Dave and rhizo: I deplore the masses of TruGreen, etc. guys that come into my little neighborhood, bent on eradicating indiscriminately. And the fools that spray the entire perimeter of their homes with God knows what because they saw tiny ants using the siding as a route to home or food or ......... I've been gardening a long time and am basically organic - do use Roundup when I need to control more Bermuda than this old gal has the strength to completely dig out. Would appreciate recommendations re field guides. I now have from the library NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY Field Guide to N. American Insects and Spiders, NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ditto the rest, and GARDEN INSECTS OF N. AMERICA by Whitney Cranshaw. Enuf from me for now. I really appreciate y'all's guidance. Rosie, Sugar Hill, GA |
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