Market Farming

["Steven Moize" <Shady_Grove_Farm AT msn.com>]

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

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: roxann

To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:55 PM

Subject: [Market-farming] blister beetles

Hi, I too am having an issue with blister beetles. it's the first time i've ever seen the bug in my life and I hope to never see them again! I used DE with pyrethrium on the way out to work yesterday morning and when I got home yesterday eve they were nowhere in sight. I've also heard that you can coat your plants with flour and the bugs will eat it and then seek water and die because of the swelling. Not sure about that one, but I plan to try it if I see them again. They have totally decimated my tomatoes and eggplants. I was amazed at how destructive they are.

Roxann, NW AR
www.AncientEarthWisdom.com
www.ozarkmusings.blogspot.com

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