[CH] good bugs, microscopic

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I agree with whoever posted about B-T. for bug control of caterpillers
and grasshoppers, squash bugs and bean beetles.   And- it does not harm
beneficial insects as they do not feed on the plant material and so far
I have not noticed a die off.
I use beneficial nematodes for soil-living critters.  they are not
harmful to earthworms.
I just ordered some, 1,000,000 for 13.95.  which covers about 2500 sq
feet and also goes into the planters and pots.   this is a great
solution to grubs and cutworms.

Preying mantis are late hatching this year, they need a good long
stretch of warm weather to hatch.

Once my tomato plants are really big and too leafy to hand-pick tomato
hornworms, I order and release tricogramma wasps, which are tiny little
things, barely visible, which lay eggs that look like tiny rice grains
standing on end on the caterpillers.   I leave those guys along as that
means a new generation of little predators is on the way.
Several ant lions have moved into the bare sandy area along my back
fence,  clever little devils.


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