"Will You fly into my Salvia", said the Spider
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Comments (15)Wow, that is super cool! It is so realistic that it gives me the chills. Your DH did such a wonderful job! I would be proud to have that in my yard----preferably, the only spider I find. ----Sheri...See MoreNo more BUGS he said!
Comments (22)Hey I know this will blow ya'lls mind but I have lady bugs in my bedroom where I have a few brugs. These suckers have no bugs on them whatsoever other than the ladybugs once in awhile. However I have about 30 brugs on the bar under a grow light and those things stay infested with those little clear whitebugs. I suspect that the lady bugs are eatting the ones in the bedroom. Where as there are none in the kitchen area. Maybe I should take some in there and put them on the brugs. It would probably be safer than spraying once a week. Of course if I removed the leaves there would be fewer bugs too. Why didn't someone let me know just how many bugs we were talking about when growing these things inside? I may have put them all in the greenhouse instead of just a few of them. A little over a month ago the ladybugs where in swarms here around my house. You couldn't go outside without being attacked by them. They were flying everywhere, and it was like something from a horror movie. You sure didn't want to open your mouth while you where out there with them. LOL Anyway I don't know how they got into the bedroom but I thought what the heck, I'll just let them stay. It's actually the guest room anyway. Low and behold the ladybugs are now my guest and the brugs seem to be enjoying having them around. (grin). I can take some pictures of them but I don't know how to put them on the web. Don't bother with trying to tell me how, I'm old and it's more trouble than it's worth. Happy Gardening Marian...See MoreAugh! Aphids and spider mites!
Comments (4)Hi GreenDreamhome: I applaud your experimenting, and would love to hear the results. Years ago we had a drought, with temp. over 100, my Eglantyne rose had spider-mites from the nursery. Spraying with water didn't help. It was planted near a brick border, which reflected the heat onto the rose. I kept pruning, that didn't help. Finally I moved it away from the brick border, to a partial shade location, with a wet manure mulch. After spraying with water, I used 70% rubbing alcohol with paper towel to rub off the affected branches. That rose was freed of spider mite, and sprouted healthy leaves. I checked all the sites on spider-mites, and could not find garlic as effective. From U. of Colorado Extension: "Spider mites: Symptoms of injury include flecking, discoloration (bronzing) and scorching of leaves. Natural enemies include small lady beetles, predatory mites, minute pirate bugs, big-eyed bugs and predatory thrips. One reason that spider mites become a problem is insecticides that kill their natural predators." **** From Straw: Ever since I rubbed off all the branches with alcohol & pruned off the tip ... zero spider-mite in my garden for the past 3 years. I planted lots of Calendula which host green lacewings. Best wishes in combating spider-mites, they are hard to get rid off. From eHow: "Spider Mite Predators - Three main predators are: phytoseiulus persimilis, neoseiulus californicus and mesoseiulus longipes. All three are effective in temperature levels from 55 to 100 degrees and in humidity as low as 45 percent. Beneficial Insects - Green lacewings can be introduced to a garden as larvae and will consume spider mite populations. Ladybugs & Praying mantis and spined soldier bugs have been used to combat mites." Some info. from below link: "Washing away the mites' webs will interrupt their natural life cycle and prevent them from multiplying. Use a strong blast of water to wash. Do this in the morning for three days in a row. You can use a hand-held vacuum to remove the mites and webs from your plants. After vacuuming the plants, place the contents of the canister in a plastic bag and put the bag in the freezer for several hours to kill the mites." *** From Straw: the spider-mite infestation of my Eglantyne was so bad that if I had pruned more, it would had been too short. That's why I rubbed the branches & some leaves with paper towel doused with rubbing alcohol. When I wiped the kitchen floor with 70% alcohol, even ants got killed. The advantage of alcohol is it evaporates quickly, easily washed off, and won't harm beneficial insects introduced later on to the garden. Calendula seeds are sold cheap & the flowers are pretty & edible & used for medicinal purpose. I also use calendula petals in cooking to give rice-casserole a yellow color. Calendula thrives in hot & dry conditions, and host green lacewings which devour both aphids and spider mites. See picture of yellow Calendula flower that I used in my bouquet, along with red Firefighter rose: Here is a link that might be useful: Organic ways to stop spider mites This post was edited by Strawberryhill on Wed, Apr 2, 14 at 18:16...See MoreWhy did Spider Plant "Boonie" become Green Spider Plant?
Comments (36)The rhizome contains genetic information that will duplicate the parent plant. when you take a leaf cutting, the whole reproductive process changes. Just one cell from either I, II, or III will begin the rooting process but that one cell only contains the genetic material coding for whichever layer it comes from. The rhizome contains all of the genetic information from the parent, instead of having to start from scratch at just one type of cell. many African Violets are this way, chimeras. You can reproduce the plant only if you have a full crown (with all the genetic information, including the mutation) but if you take a leaf and try to propagate a new plant, it will not be true to the parent and will lose some of that genetic coding along the way. The cells in the leaves are very simple. They are to do one thing, and one thing only. Now, the cells in the dormant buds contain a different type of cell, one with much more potential than just a leaf cell. imagine it as if the dormant buds are similar to human stem cells, they can grow into almost any type of organ or tissue. Humans can't regenerate limbs (or bodies) so that example has to stop there lol. But with starfish (sea stars!), they can grow a limb back, but if a limb is ripped off, unless it has part of that central core (body), then the arm cells don't have enough genetic information to create a new body. The difference is the TYPE of cell used in starting the plant, whether it's a "stem cell" that holds information for the whole plant or just a leaf cell that is specialized and only holds the genetic information for its layer of leaf cells. That's probably going to be really confusing. It was kind of all over the natural world lol. I love biology though, so I enjoy our conversations!...See More
MissSherry
5 years agoYes, it's hard to photograph spiders and their webs. When I lived in the country, we had a lot like this -
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Iris S (SC, Zone 7b)
5 years agoGreat picture, Sherry. I am not a big spider fan except for jumping spiders. They are adorable in pictures. So the only one with a web right now is this one from two days ago. It’s not even a good one.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoIris S (SC, Zone 7b)
5 years agoI am not a big fan of spiders except for jumping spiders. Have to admire their work ethic though. They have their webs replaced on my porch the day after I cleaned. This time of the year I might as well let them be and call it Halloween decoration.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoIris,
He is really cute, for a spider lol.
I had a big Red Femured Orb Weaver jump on me the other day when I was watering by the greenhouse. I had to google what he was. He is weird, his abdomen is very roundish more like a black widow than the yellow orb weavers Im used to around here.
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sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
5 years agoIris S (SC, Zone 7b)
5 years agoSultry, I really don’t know much about spiders. Like when they would split up. They are still together with what I assume mom watching. How does that work? Does mom catch a bug and just drops it for the kids to fight over?
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5 years agoI always thought that spiders ate their young. No clue why I thought that lol. Its cool to think the momma spider is watching out for them. Dropping food and calling the babies to eat reminds me of our crazy chicken mommas clucking up a storm calling their babies for treats :)
I found the original Orb Weaver by the salvia spinning up a web around some poor critter. You can actually see the web shooting out her ummm abdomen? lol
Iris S (SC, Zone 7b)
5 years agoThis is an incredible picture! I recently asked in the Insect forum about a weird thing I saw. It was identified as a fungus that is attacking spiders. So they don’t have it easy either.
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