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If we could garden without any interference from the pests which attack plants, then indeed gardening would be a simple matter. But every time we have to look out for these little foes little in size but huge in the havoc they make.
As disease in humans can often be prevented by healthful conditions, so that pests can be kept away by strict garden cleanliness. Piles of debris are shelters for the breeding of insects. I do not think a compost pile will do the harm, but unkempt, neglected items seem to have problems.
There is certain helps keep pests down. The constant agitation of the soil by earthworms is an aid to keep the soil open to air and water. Many of our birds common feed on insects. The sparrows, robins, chickadees, meadow larks and orioles are all examples of birds who help in this way. Some insects feed on other insects and pests. Some kinds of ladybugs do this good deed. The ichneumon up also helps. And toads are wonders in the number of insects they can consume in a food. The toad deserves very kind treatment of us all.
Each gardener should try to make your garden or in a place attractive to birds and toads. A good birdhouse, grain sprinkled about in early spring, a place of water, are invitations for birds to linger in your garden. If you wish toads, fix things for them too. During a hot summer day a toad likes to rest in the shade. At night, he's ready to go out to eat, but not to kill, since toads prefer live food. How can "fix" the toads? Well, one thing to do is prepare a retreat, quiet, dark and wet. Some stones of a size below the shade of a shrub with perhaps a carpeting of damp leaves, it seems very fine to a toad.
There are two general classes of insects known by the way they do their work. One kind gnaws at the plant really taking pieces of it in your system. This type of insect has a mouth fitted to do this work. Grasshoppers and caterpillars are of this type. The other kind sucks the juices from a plant. This, in a sense, is the worst kind. Aphids belong here, like mosquitoes, which prey on us. All scale insects cling in plants and suck the life of plants.
Now we can fight those guys? The gnawing fellows may be caught with poison sprayed on the plants, which have in their bodies with the plant. The blend of Bordeaux, which is a poison sprayed on the plants for this purpose.
In the other case the only thing is to attack the insect direct. So certain insecticides, as they are called, are sprayed on the plant to fall upon the insect. They do a deadly work of attacking, in one way or another, the body of the insect.
Sometimes we are very concerned with underground insects at work. You've seen a garden covered with ant hills. Here is a remedy, but one of which you should be careful.
This question is constantly being asked: "How can I tell what insect is doing the work of destruction?" Well, you can tell partly by the work done, and partly by seeing the insect itself. The latter is not always so easy. I had cutworms one season and never seen one. I just saw the work done. If the stalks of tender plants are cut clean to be quite sure the cutworm abroad. What do you think? Well, that's a hard question because his family is very large. To see a grayish striped Caterpillar, you can know that is a cutworm. But because of their habit resting on the ground during the working day and night, it is difficult to see one. The cutworm is around early in the season ready to cut the stems of the flower of the hyacinth. When the peas go a little later, he is ready for them. A great way to prevent this is to make necklaces out of paper or tin plants. These collars should be about an inch away from the plant.
Of course, plant lice are more common. In those we see are often green. But can be red, yellow or brown. Lice are easy enough to find since they are always clinging to their hosts. As sucking insects they have to hang around a food plant, and one is almost certain to find them. But the biting insects do their work, and then hide. That makes them much harder to treat. Rose slugs do great damage to the roses. They eat out of the body of the leaves, so that only the grain remains. They are soft-bodied, green above and yellow below. A beetle, the striped beetle, attacks the young melons and squash leaves. It feeds on the leaf of riddles holes in it. This beetle, as its name implies, is stripes. The back is black with yellow stripes running lengthwise.
Then there are the slugs, which are garden pests. The slug will devour almost any garden plant, either a flower or a vegetable. That lay many eggs in old landfills. You see the good of cleaning up rubbish? The slugs do more harm in the garden than almost any other single insect pest. You can discover in the following manner. There is a trick to bring them to the surface of the earth in the day. You see that rest during the day under land. So water the ground where slugs are supposed to be. How do you know where are they? They are very likely to hide near the plants feed. So the groundwater with limewater some good clean. This will disturb them, and even going to get to see what it is.
In addition to these more common pests, pests which attack many types of plants, there are special special pest plants. Discouraging, is not it? Pests of beans have their own, of so that the potatoes and cabbage. In fact, the garden has many inhabitants. In the flower garden lice are very bothersome, the cutworm and the slug have a good time there, too, and ants are usually very numerous as the season progresses. But real insect problems discourage the garden takes the prize. If they were in the fruit to any extent, such Once the garden would have to relinquish to the fruit garden.
A common pest in the garden is the tomato worm. This is the large yellowish or worm green stripes. His job is to eat the young fruit.
A large light green caterpillar is found in celery. This caterpillar may be told by black bands, one on each ring or body segment.
The squash bug may be told by its brown body, which is long and thin, and the unpleasant smell it when killed. The potato bug is another fellow to look. It is a beetle with yellow and black striped back crusty. The little green cabbage worm is a perfect nuisance. This worm small and smaller than the tomato worm. These are perhaps the most common garden pests by name.
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