Market Farming

["roxann" <roxann AT ancientearthwisdom.com>]

Hi Steve, I found out that as nymph stage bugs they are good bugs. But the 
havoc they wreaked in the garden as adults far outweighed any good they did 
while young. I've never seen anything like it before in my life - it was 
truly shocking! How do they manage to go from Dr. Jeckle to Mr. Hyde in my 
garden, but not in yours? LOL. It was more than crop damage, it was crop 
annilhiation. I just can't see a way to peacefully coexist with them at all. 
But maybe this was an anomoly (can't spell it so it looks right), because 
I've never seen them before and lots of others are beginning to say the same 
thing - they aren't a usual pest in their gardens either. Wonder what 
happened to make them change thier tactics?

Roxann
www.ozarkmusings.blogspot.com


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Steven Moize <Shady_Grove_Farm AT msn.com>
>  Subject: Re: [Market-farming] blister beetles
>  Sent: 11 Aug '06 19:58
>  
>  Hi all,
>  
>  
>  Sorry to hear that blister beetles are causing crop damage.  We have
>  blister beetles here in NC, I have yet to see them do any real damage to
>  our  crops.
>  
>  
>  I would like to mention that they are as beneficial an insect as a  pest.
>  They voraciously eat grasshopper larva and young.  It is about  grasshopper
>  season here in NC, so I am ready to see more blister  beetles...
>  
>  
>  Steve