Gardening Pest Control with Organic Methods!
Gardening pest control is simple; if you can recognise all the beneficial insects in your garden! There are many garden pests in our organic garden. So far we have no problem to avoid those large sized pests; such as the garden slugs and snails. Most of our troublesome pests are those mini sized unknown flying insects. With insufficient knowledge about the beneficial predatory insects; I had been destroying our most wanted helpful insects: the flying ladybug's babies; since we had our first flowering apple tree in the year 2008. Plants that attracted to beneficial insects are plants infested with plenty of unwanted plant pests; because the predatory insects will lay their eggs very near to the garden pests; so that their babies will have enough food to feed on; when they are being hatched. Ladybugs are lovely flying insects that desired for the tiny Lice insects which suck plant's juice. The lady beetle is also known as Ladybird; is beetle which good by feeding in the adult and grub (larva) stages upon Aphids (greenfly or Blight).
Adult Ladybird is well known to most of us; but in the grub stage, they are very different in appearance that,
not many of us can recognise. The eggs of the Ladybird are conical in shape and yellow in colour, going brown when about to hatch. They are placed by the adult insect in small groups upon the stem or underside of the leaves of a plant infested by Aphids. We found Ladybug grubs often on the apple trees; hibiscus tree; poppy plants; and lily flower plants in our backyard garden. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lady-bird grub has enormous great appetite on greenflies. After hatching from eggs, the grub begins to hunt, and on reaching at the first group of Aphids eats its way speedily through them. They are very active and grow quickly, changes their skin several times, and on becoming full-fed turns to pupa's on the plant. The Pupa's look like dried-up objects when first formed, light yellow, but afterwards darker in colour. The shrivelled skin of the grub, out of which the pupa has emerged, remains wrapped round the "tail". After a few days, varying with the temperature, this pupa splits and the adult Ladybird crawls forth, being at first soft and pale, but hardening in a few hours and attaining the characteristic colouration. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are several broods throughout the summer, the last one will be spending the winter asleep under bark of trees or in some cranny, when at times considerable numbers collect together in one place. With the warmth of spring they emerge from their hiding places and the first eggs of the season are laid. The perfect insect should be a little round, red beetles with black spots; orange or yellow with black spots; or black with red spots. Ladybirds have little black wings hiden under their bodies. Besides green flies; Lice; they are also feed on Scale insects, Suckers, or other pests. Gardening pest control solutions with more plant observations and more beneficial insects research! |
