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  • From: Krystle <learning AT selfmadefarmer.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Wasps in lettuce?
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 21:11:55 -0700

I might risk sounding like an amateur here (and that's okay, because I am) but I've encountered wasps in the greens at the current farm where I'm working and I was told by the farmer that they're good. It's my understanding that wasps eat other insects, not greens, and in that regard, they're beneficial. The ones I come across are not aggressive at all; they seem rather disoriented by my slicing and dicing, is all.

Occasionally I also come across this giant mosquito-like insects in the chard that I was told aren't mosquitoes...They eat mosquitoes. So the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Best,

Krystle
Salem, OR
http://www.selfmadefarmer.com

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:51 PM, courtney mcleod <sunmoonriver AT windstream.net> wrote:

Mountain Dew in a trap…you will have to change it daily!

 

Courtney
Middlefield, Oh

 


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of jjburroughs AT msn.com
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:58 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [Market-farming] Wasps in lettuce?

 

Has anyone encountered this before? Last night I went out to harvest the lettuce and found a nice wasp or two tucked into the centers of each lettuce plant.
 
Any ideas on how to inspire the wasps to find habitat elsewhere?
 
Jaime, in CA


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