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ladybeth27
Crew

PostPosted: 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.
PostPosted: 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.

Anthrax in my Tampax


ladybeth27
Crew

PostPosted: 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
PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:29 pm


....Wow... eek

rikuHEART
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Indicrow

PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:08 pm


If only it wasn't so expensive. >_<
PostPosted: 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

rikuHEART
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Indicrow

PostPosted: 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.
PostPosted: 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

rikuHEART
Captain


Anthrax in my Tampax

PostPosted: 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
PostPosted: 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

rikuHEART
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Hummusalia

PostPosted: 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...
PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:25 pm


one question:
Are the insects native to your area? If not, there might be a problem...

Hummusalia


rikuHEART
Captain

PostPosted: 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....
PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:09 pm


That would be a problem, so they'd need to find that out.

Indicrow

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