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 Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:23 am
Home Depot knows nothing about this at all. I told them I wanted something natural and they recommended something with pyrethin (also used to kill fleas). I said no, I want non-chemical and they recommended something with petroleum oil. I found this website www.naturescontrol.com/controls.html - 29k where they sell bugs. I can buy 5,000 eggs for 5 or 6 bucks. They hatch into tiny wasps that lay their eggs in the caterpillars eggs, which destoys the caterpilllar. They are too small to sting. I looked up the wasp species and other sites confirmed it. I will order it. This tree is on my deck, where we feed the squirrels and grill food. I really don't want poison on my deck.
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:40 pm
Ladie bugs are an excellent natural pesticide for those looking to start a vegetable garden. They eat aphids and other insects that tend to damage and destroy many plants.
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:23 am
I found out a little more. Lady bugs will not eat these things, which I think are fall webworms, but the little wasps will. They need to be released in about a month when there are eggs to parasitize. There is a store in St. Louis which sells them. smile
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:29 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:08 pm
If only it wasn't so expensive. >_<
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:07 pm
Yeah, seriously...Almost everything environmentally friendly is expensive...Organic food, free range meat.... xp I think ppl should lower those prices and make the un-environmentally friendly stuff more expensive. That way you'd encourage consumers to use earth-friendly products. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:43 pm
rikuHEART Yeah, seriously...Almost everything environmentally friendly is expensive...Organic food, free range meat.... xp I think ppl should lower those prices and make the un-environmentally friendly stuff more expensive. That way you'd encourage consumers to use earth-friendly products. 3nodding But seeing how the majority of the food business don't care about their consumer's health, they'll barely do anything so others should.
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:57 pm
Devin_Kruljac_Truessence The majority of the food business don't care about their consumer's health. Poo them. scream
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:24 pm
rikuHEART Yeah, seriously...Almost everything environmentally friendly is expensive...Organic food, free range meat.... xp I think ppl should lower those prices and make the un-environmentally friendly stuff more expensive. That way you'd encourage consumers to use earth-friendly products. 3nodding I personally don't find free range meat to be much more expensive than that manufactured by major corporations. But, then again, I do live in a some-what rural area that is easily accessable to the local farms whee
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:57 am
We live downtown of a suburb....(if that makes any sense)....Free range meat is like quadrouple (sp?) the price of regular meat here....and organic is double the price.. crying
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:24 pm
I have a question:
are the insects native to your area? If not we might have a problem...
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:25 pm
one question:
Are the insects native to your area? If not, there might be a problem...
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:11 pm
Hummusalia one question: Are the insects native to your area? If not, there might be a problem... True....
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:09 pm
That would be a problem, so they'd need to find that out.
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