All About Insecticides
Posted on | June 26, 2010 | No Comments
Steve McShane here, McShanesNursery.com, thanks for tuning in. Going to talk a little bit about insecticides. How can we environmentally take care of the bugs that we don’t want in our garden. Two kinds of bugs out there – chewing bugs and sucking bugs, Different types of defenses when it comes to the gardener. Probably the best advise I give people is when you think about insects: you need to think about it in the same way you think about a cop, right? There’s an escalation in the use of force. Before the officer is going to shoot the [perpetrator] with a gun, they may present their baton or maybe go about it with a taser, well same goes with your garden. Our best defense against bugs is an oil. In most cases if an oil gets a chewing or sucking insect, they will die. If not right away, pretty quickly. Sometimes, if it is not just the oil, the oil will have something in it, like say a neem. A neem is a natural defense that when applied, in the case of this concentrate, as directed, will go a step further to really zap those bugs. Now, for the chewing bugs, a product that I’m really excited about is this Captain Jack’s Dead Bug Brew. Real life story about a guy that was in the Caribbean and came across a rum distillery where there were no bugs living at all and he was so curious. Lo and behold, months later he comes to find that he discovered a new type of natural insecticide called spinosad. For a chewing insect, when they ingest this, they die. So oils, oils with Neem <b>…</b>
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All About Insecticides
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