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  • From: Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Harlequin bug
  • Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:40:31 +0000

Anybody had success dealing with Harlequin Bug (Murgantia histrionica)? (There's a picture at

http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4TH/KKHP/1INSECTS/harlequin.html

although my version of HB is more yellow-orange, rather than red, along with the black.)

For about 3 years now, they have devastated all my crucifer crops. Brassicas are hit, too, but I'm able to get good crops of cabbage, broccoli, kale. Radishes of all sorts (including winter types like daikon), mustards and other cooking greens like raab, etc.--often, I simply can't mature a crop of those, spring or fall.(Meaning I plant and get *zero* return.) And this in a period when I'm emphasizing beneficial insect plantings more all the time, and getting great results with some of the problem insects from the past--Colorado potato beetle, cabbage worm, even bean beetle has not been as prolific. (Squash bug is another matter--but I sic the guineas on them, with 100% effect.)

I don't use *any* sprays or dusts anymore, "organically approved" or not. Anybody have any successful experience to share, controling HB using only beneficials enhancement and other non-broad-spectrum solutions? Thanks.

~Harvey
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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." ~Wendell Berry



  • [Livingontheland] Harlequin bug, Harvey Ussery, 09/19/2006

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