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Continuing from this post . The ladybugs left without finishing the job. The plant then got a really bad infestation about two weeks after they left.
I then bought a pack of Cryptolaemus montrouzieri. They are called “mealybug destroyer” for a reason. They immediately started to feast on the pest bugs, wiping the population very quickly.
Here you can see a Cryptolaemus bug chasing a mealybug (the white little one on the leaf border). Plenty to choose from, though.
To be continued, again.
This is the first of a series documenting a war being fought at home. I have a plant that is infested with mealybugs. After trying a lot of remedies (including countless hours with cotton swabs wet with alcohol to kill the mealybugs one by one), I found that you can order ladybugs online. Ladybugs are voracious predators of many pests, including mealybugs.
Clearly, they were hard at work, as you can see in this image (the white stuff is half a mealybug). Unfortunately, the ladybugs left before finishing the job, and the population of mealybugs quickly rose again. Continued in this post .
Yes indeed, I am bringing the Spiders back. I Thought I was done with them but recently, I think I got some really great shots of these little guys that even I am beginning to feel I am obsessed with. The canal parallel to the road Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee has some very old street lamps and are so designed the Spiders, in this case as always, Orb Weavers, can setup their webs abundantly, the light attracting the bugs become easy prey. This one was teeming with dead little flies and so said Spiders were bountiful in their constant need for food.
Please watch this space!!!
Hoping everyone's week has gotten off to a great start and so as always, thank you! :)
Blue Dashers are one of the most abundant dragonflies in the U.S. and can be found near slow moving water sources, marshes and ponds. Adults have four wings with two noticeable dark streaks in them. Adult males have a chalky, blue color from head to abdomen that ends with a black tip. Their heads contain their large eyes which take on a metallic sheen in certain lighting. The female coloring differs from the male. Her abdomen is black with yellow stripes along the sides and top. Her wings do not contain the aforementioned streaks and their abdomens are stubbier. The thorax has yellowish-green striping not seen on adult males. Juvenile Blue Dashers are not blue yet. They have green and yellow stripes on the thorax and yellow dashes along the side of the abdomen, much like adult females.
Males are often seen around water's edge, protecting their territory from other males. They will flash their blue abdomens as a warning to each other. Females usually perch on vegetation and only approach the water when they are ready to mate. Both genders stick their abdomens upright in the air when perched, as if on alert, and they snap their wings closed after settling down. Like other dragonflies, the ecologically beneficial Blue Dasher contributes to pest control by consuming hundreds of smaller insects each day.
I found this male along Lake Kissimmee at Joe Overstreet Landing in Osceola County, Florida.
Quite different in coloration to mainland Wabbits dont you think...must be the wind up there.... 🤔
©Gerry Gutteridge...
Admittedly, I haven't always seen these as the good guys. Usually they are dive bombing us as we enjoy a meal on the deck, chewing on my garden stakes (I believe they use the wood for home building materials) or buzzing around the hummingbird feeders when I am trying to change the nectar. But this one, in the garden, caught my eye. It was eating a garden pest. And although I don't always see eye to eye with wasps, today the enemy of my enemy became my friend.
Most of the older farm houses had gourd birdhouses hung around them to attract Purple Martins which are supposed to help with mosquito control.
This image started out and went in a new direction for me! I have always admired these drawing-like looks, but didn't know how to accomplish them. This one came on my computer with complete serendipity. I wasn't even trying to accomplish this - I just wanted to make a very bland photo interesting and usable. I would welcome any instruction from those who know how to achieve this look in a more orderly & predictable fashion than I went through.
Auf einer Fototour mit der Fotogruppe Dormagen, Netzwerk 55 plus im Naturpark Maas-Schwalm-Nette
asiatische Harlekin-Marienkäfer.
Marienkäfer gehen eigentlich immer nur zwei Beschäftigungen nach: Sie schlagen sich den Bauch voll oder haben Sex oder sind gerade unterwegs zu einem von beiden. Beliebt ist auch die zeitsparende Kombination: Während Herr Marienkäfer sich hinten rechtschaffen müht, frisst sie vorne eine Blattlaus nach der anderen auf. Ein Marienkäferleben ist halt kurz.
asian harlequin ladybug.
Ladybugs only ever have two jobs: they fill their stomachs or have sex or they are on their way to one of the two. The time-saving combination is also popular: while Mr. Ladybug is doing his best at the back, she is eating one aphid after the other at the front. A ladybug's life is short.
The swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) seems to really attract the aphids but this Seven-spotted lady bug (Coccinella septempunctata) seems ready to take them on. The aphids get a soapy water spray once a day but I try to not get it were there are active predators.
In 2012, S. Muthu Kumar and K. Sahayaraj wrote a fascinating article on the morphology and histology of the salivary glands of Rhynocoris marginatus, a Coreid Assassin Bug, closely related to our Fuscipes (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469405/).
And relatively recent research has been done into the possibilties of using Assassin Bugs as an ecologically friendly way of pest control. These Bugs hunt agricultural pests such as moths and caterpillars of various kinds. They inject their prey with a venomous saliva; the article just quoted seeks to clarify the workings of the salivary glands of this relatively small Bug.
No, Sony didn't take this photo in an agricultural area, but the workings in the wild would be much the same. Here's Rhynocoris fuscipes making off with a caterpillar of a Mint Leaf Moth, Pyrausta panopealis (I'm not entirely sure of the specific name because of our Moth's Green Eyes which in Panopealis are taken to be black).
This little drama of life-and-death and a variety of diets - carnivorous and nectarine - took place on a single Mint Plant at the bottom of the almost sheer rocks of Tanjung Rumbeh.
A common Yellow Jacket sips a little water from my back yard birdbath. I grow flowers along with my vegetables, both to beautify and to attract insects of all sorts. Although they look menacing, and prey on other insects, generally these vespid wasps are not aggressive toward humans. I work in close with a macro lens and have never been stung. Some years ago I read that most wasp stings occur in the fall when queens leave the nest to mate and start a new colony elsewhere. This leaves the workers without a common purpose: it's every wasp for itself and they become more aggressive than normal, and more likely to sting. (I hope this information is accurate, as I haven't taken the time to google it for verification!)
Yellow Jackets are welcome in my back yard, but this doesn't extend to building their nests from the eaves or any other part of my house. Twenty years ago, on Vancouver Island, some yellow jackets constructed a nest very close to a family of Violet-green Swallows, very high on the house I was renting, too high for me to reach. "Oh, no!" I thought, "Those wasps are going to sting the baby birds to death." Ha! Within a week there wasn't a wasp in sight; the parent birds had caught them all and fed them to their nestlings. Nature tends to take care of itself if we just leave things alone.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
The Chive plants produce a large amount of nectar and are a favourite with bees, but they are repulsive to many insects in general due to their sulphur compounds. They are ‘herbs’ and are used in cooking, the green stalks and unopened immature flower buds are diced and used as an ingredient in many dishes hot and cold, also the chive plant has insect repelling properties that can be used in gardens as a pest control.
The black garden ant (Lasius niger), also known as the common black ant, is a formicine ant, the type species of the subgenus Lasius, which is found across Europe and in some parts of North America, South America, Asia and Australasia. The European species was split into two species; L. niger, which are found in open areas; and L. platythorax, which is found in forest habitats. It is monogynous, meaning colonies contain a single queen.
Lasius niger colonies can reach in size up to around 40,000 workers in rare cases, but 4,000–7,000 is around average. A Lasius niger queen can live for up to 29 years[2] the longest recorded lifespan for any eusocial insect. Lasius niger queens in the early stages of founding can have two to three other queens in the nest. They will tolerate each other until the first workers come, then it is most likely they will fight until one queen remains. In certain circumstances, it is possible that there can be multiple queens in a single colony if they are founding somewhat near each other and eventually their two tunnels connect.[citation needed] Under laboratory conditions, workers can live at least 4 years.
this is like the fifth dead woodpecker i've spotted this month.. not sure if is from the spraying for west nile or whatever but it is an ugly ugly thing!
Fumigation against mosquitos to prevent spread of dengue fever and malaria in a slum on the coast of Arabian Sea in Colaba area of in Mumbai, India. There has been an increase in the number of dengue cases last year and the government was tackling the issue by large scale fumigation actions.
Lens: EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
The tiny green lacewing is an organic gardener's best friend, feasting on aphids and other small insect pests. I'm happy to have them in my garden, they are an outstanding addition to my organic garden pest control arsenal. Backyard photography.
Red and black Lygaeus equestris insect perched on a green leaf, macro shot in a natural setting, Visegrád, Hungary.
A callarse / Keeping Quiet
Ahora contaremos doce
y nos quedamos todos quietos.
Por una vez sobre la tierra
no hablemos en ningún idioma,
por un segundo detengámonos,
no movamos tanto los brazos.
Sería un minuto fragante,
sin prisa, sin locomotoras,
todos estaríamos juntos
en una inquietud instantánea.
Los pescadores del mar frió
no harían daño a las ballenas
y el trabajador de la sal
miraría sus manos rotas.
Los que preparan guerras verdes,
guerras de gas, guerras de fuego,
victorias sin sobrevivientes,
se pondrían un traje puro
y andarían son sus hermanos
por la sombra, sin hacer nada.
No se confunda lo quiero
con la inacción definitiva:
la vida es solo lo que se hace,
no quiero nada con la muerte.
Si no pudimos ser unánimes
moviendo tanto nuestras vidas
tal vez no hacer nada una vez,
tal vez un gran silencio pueda
interrumpir esta tristeza,
este no entendernos jamás
y amenazarnos con la muerte,
tal vez la tierra nos enseñe
cuando todo parece muerto
y luego todo estaba vivo.
Ahora contare hasta doce
y tú te callas y me voy.
Keeping Quiet / A callarse
Now we will all count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
This one time upon the earth,
let’s not speak any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be a delicious moment,
without hurry, without locomotives,
all of us would be together
in a sudden uneasiness.
The fisherman in the cold sea
would do no harm to the whales
and the peasant gathering salt
would look at his torn hands.
Those who prepare green wars,
wars of gas, wars of fire,
victories without survivors,
would put on clean clothing
and would walk alongside their brothers
in the shade, without doing a thing.
What I want shouldn’t be confused
with final inactivity:
life alone is what matters,
I want nothing to do with death.
If we weren’t unanimous
about keeping our lives so much in motion,
if we could perhaps do nothing for once,
perhaps a great silence would interrupt this sadness,
this never understanding ourselves
and threatening ourselves with death,
perhaps the earth is teaching us
when everything seems to be dead
and everything is alive.
Now I will count to twelve
and you keep quiet and I’ll go.
-By Pablo Neruda
-Englsih translation by Stephen Mitchell
*Here is a link considered one of the best translations of Neruda....
Macro of a very unique looking green spider. The green lynx spider, is a bright-green lynx spider usually found on green plants. It is the largest North American species in the family Oxyopidae
Button barriers - discs made of mylar are placed between the button and dress. This helps prevent any staining of the textile if rust develops over time on the metal shank of the button.
Will be frozen at -30c for 2 weeks for pest control prior to cataloguing and photography.
These are one of those wonderful little things that make such a great difference in the life of a collection manager, otherwise I'd be wrapping each button with tissue!
Found this Green Eyed Lady staring at me from a large pot of impatiens. I looked through the pot of flowers and found that she had just laid a HUGE egg case of eggs! This is one of the largest mantis' I have seen, at about 3-1/2 inches long! Notice the formidable looking forearms. You wouldn't want her to get hold of a finger! She might decide she's still hungry! ; ) I'm going to make sure that egg case is protected through the winter and placed in the garden next spring. Hope you all have a great week ahead!
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I usually see these beauties in pairs during spring migration. This one snuck in yesterday and hung out for a bit. I wonder if he will make this area his winter home or if he's just passing through. I read that they are common in my area during the winter so it could happen. It would be such a pleasure to see him during the bird shows throughout the winter.
My little bird visitors sure do make for great pest control. I have no idea what he was eating in oak two. Apparently, that tree was in need of a serious cleaning. Philomena (red-bellied woodpecker) has been cleaning that tree for a couple of weeks now.
Oak two is my favorite oak tree in the yard, I am going to have to trust that the cleaning crew will keep it healthy. I got a glimpse of the black and white warbler yesterday as well. He was assisting with the cleaning of oak two.
Enjoy your day, happy snapping.
A Green Lynx Spider and her cluster of newly hatched babies. The Green Lynx Spider is usually found in woody shrubs and low bushes or other types of herbaceous vegetation in warm, xeric habitats. It can be very common in agricultural fields, where it may play an important role in the control of pest insects.
Just back from a few days visiting three of our favorite parks in western South Dakota. All three have healthy populations of Plains Bison.
This bison cow had a Black-billed Magpie on her back, providing some free pest control. It seems like bison should appreciate this service, but we watched the magpie attempt it on several bison, and each time the bison would promptly reject the attempts.
Perched on the petals of a flower in my garden - perhaps a zinnia - this Green Lacewing is grooming its antennae. These insects are both beautiful and beneficial, as their larvae are voracious predators of garden pests such as aphids. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, supplementing their diet with aphids and mites. This one has been doing the former and its head and antennae are sprinkled with pollen grains.
Photographed in my backyard garden, Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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Pest control(manually) in the farm. Not sure if you can identify but this is the field of potato, where it was paddy field last year. You can check the harvest scene in above links.
Fumigation against mosquitos to prevent spread of dengue fever and malaria in a slum on the coast of Arabian Sea in Colaba area of in Mumbai, India. There has been an increase in the number of dengue cases last year and the government was tackling the issue by large scale fumigation actions.
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Huntsman spiders so often find themselves within our human homes here in Australia.
They are superb pest control, going after insects such as cockroaches.
This female spotted high up on my lounge wall, just under the ceiling. She is within genus Heteropoda, commonly known as giant huntsman.
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