Market Farming

["TxBeeFarmer" <TxBeeFarmer AT HotPop.com>]

I'm thinking Lace Wings or Big Eyed Bugs will control Blister Beetle larvae. 
DE tends to work on virtually all adult hard shelled bugs and can be sprayed 
mixed with water.  If using DE, be sure to use food grade, not because of 
any health reasons, but because other types have been heated.  The heating 
dulls the edges of the particles and isn't as effective as food grade.

TxBeeFarmer
West Texas Zone 7b


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wiediger, Alison" <alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us>
To: "roxann" <roxann AT ancientearthwisdom.com>; "Market Farming" 
<market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] blister beetles


> '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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