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Bugs bug me: Help please!
Comments (9)I decided to look up thrips in my book about greenhouse pests and beneficials. It seems they reproduce both sexually and asexually. There are 5 instar stages, egg,2 larva stages, prepupal, pupal and adult. The hotter the temperatures, the faster they go from egg to adult. Apparently thrips are really attracted to blue so some greenhouse growers hang blue sticky cards. I was wondering if you could paint stakes blue, smear with vaseline and catch them that way? The blue stakes might not look to bad with daylilies either. Think that would work? I read on the robin that one lady plants white allyssum to attract beneficials that eat the thrips. She says it worked for her. 'The most beneficial spray they have that shows promise is Metarhizium anisopliae, an entomopathogenic fungi. When the spores land on the thrips, they break through to the inside using enzymes and mechanical force. The insect dies within a few days.' Marg...See MoreIt's really bugging me...
Comments (3)A positive ID was offered on the 'pests and diseases' forum. It turns out that it's a webworm moth (aka ermine moth). One site mentions that "it can be a minor pest in nurseries, although it rarely does serious damage" -It's only a pollinator in my yard so far. Here is a link that might be useful: Webworm Moth...See MoreI think I found a really rare bug, Ima be a millionaire!
Comments (4)The bug eyed head, the two wings in a V-position at rest, and the way the hind leg is jointed says FLY to me. It is similar to a horsefly. The two small appendages sticking forward at the top of its head are navigation aids. These act like a gyroscope when the fly is in flight. These vibrate in a plane at a high rate and when the insect turns, a small, but detectable gyrscopic moment is felt. Feedback from these detectors aids the fly to maintain its desired flight path and wing motion adjustment. Rate turn instruments for airplanes have been protytped and tested using this principle and found useable....See MoreEw. Ew. EW. Dateline Story on Bed Bugs
Comments (4)I think the news often exaggerates these issues just to get viewers. I wouldn't think of changing travel plans because of fear of bedbugs. I am careful in hotels, though, wearing flipflops, keeping the sheet turned back over the top of the blanket, etc. The only thing that did concern me, however, is something I don't think they mentioned--the possibility of disease being spread from one bedbug victim to the next....See Morewildchild2x2
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