Market Farming

["Wiediger, Alison" <alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us>]

'course, if you control the grasshoppers, you reduce the blister beetle
population.  We found nosema locusta works, but it can no longer be
shipped to our state.

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of roxann
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 3:15 PM
To: Steven Moize; market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] blister beetles

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
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