I wish he'd done this for ladybugs, as I did not recognize the ladybug nymphs at first. It turns out they love my peppermint patch, so maybe mint is a good habitat for them.
We just dust the garden in wood ash when the bugs become problems. Just lightly coat everything as needed, it's fairly acidic but the rain washes it in. Works on all kinds of bugs. My granny would use a trigger handled metal flour sifter to dust the garden with on a breezy day. It works good & she didn't do anything that wasn't 1000% organic to our garden beds. She would use hoop plastic & netting but never any garden additives from the stores. We made our own organic fertilizer with horse feed pellets soaked together with crushed Wood charcoal powder . Everything I know of gardening is organic based because of my grandparents.
Every year, our local extension office puts on a Garden Symposium around Earth Day. One of the workshops I attended was on beneficial insects, definitely a topic I’m interested to know more about. One of the things I learned is that fireflies eat slugs (or their larval do).
I wish they would do that in my area, I definitely would go. I get lots of fireflies and lots of slugs, but not as many since I started raising chickens.
There's a company that sells beneficial insects and has a ton of good info about them on their website. I'd suggest using them as a reference to learn about different beneficials regardless of who you end up ordering from. The company is called Arbico Organics
Another good plant with large umbels is elderberry. It's a perennial that can grow into a huge tree, and produce hundreds of little flowers that attract beneficial insects. My elderberries are just a year old, and they're already 7-8' tall.
@@susangibbons312 I've got ravenous deer around here as well. They keep going after my sunchokes, but it's better they damage those than my more fragile plants. The best protection is a tall fence that they can't jump over, as well as spraying your vulnerable plants with a hot pepper solution to train the herbivores to stay away from them.
Could you do an episode on fireflies at some point? Fireflies aren't just pretty to observe at night. Firefly nymphs are predators of slugs, snails, and soft bodied insect pests.
First in-depth explanation I've had about how to successfully use predator bugs in the garden. Excellent. My neighbor in my community garden had a nest of yellow jackets appear and promptly poured hot soapy water down there to get rid of them. The next day I read that they kill the potato beetles that have been killing my potato crop this year. Of course they showed up! Too late.
Yellow jackets killed my praying mantis. Dive bombed and tore their head off. I was SO MAD because I raised those mantis from babies and now I know why they disappeared.
Hey Luke..I saw a plant in a really nice pot sitting out for trash. I grabbed it and brought home. Did research on the plant and found out it was a Bradford Pear Tree. Man…those thorns! Anyway, I cut it up and threw it away after finding out hoe invasive they are…but I got a really cool pot! 🤣👍
I bought some green lacewings, which are super cute, but I also managed to attract some BROWN lacewings (which eat pests as adults as well as larvae) and caught a couple to breed and lay eggs for me (with plenty of aphids from the garden to feed them). I've always been sad that you can't buy the brown ones but so happy I have a ton within my netted garden now.
You had me at thrips. I don’t know why but I have so many this year. I have lady bugs and hover flies but they don’t seem to want the thrips this year. Thank you for this series. 💚
I was in the garden early this season and saw eggs on a thread and killed them assuming they were bad bug eggs. I looked up what they were when I came inside and was absolutely horrified I did that :(. Definitely learned a lesson
A first-time gardener here. My deck has turned into a nice container garden of berries, and vegetables in the beginning stages. I came across Green Lacewings, the other night, and I had no idea what it was. I had just potted my tomatoes and they flew around my face. I then sprayed them with neem oil. Oops. They sound like the cure to the pests that love my strawberry plant leaves.
Thanks so much for the bug tips Luke! I went and ordered several different types from Natures Good Guys right after the last video and am impressed thus far and cant wait for them to hatch and get to work!
So - I bought the lacewing larva. Under the magnifying glass, I only saw 2 moving in the whole bottle marked 1,000. I sure hope I was somehow just missing them. Hate to think I bought a bottle of rice hulls. Also bought beneficial nematodes. They are supposed to be compatible with lacewings ::fingers crossed::
I am so glad i am familiar w what lacewing eggx look like. I almost wiped them off the back of my kale (assumthere were aphids there) but i caught myself and keep checking on them. Makes me not want to harvest things now bc i want the larvae i cant see to hatch! Luke, thank you for all the information. Loved the intro btw😂
I know that there is an insect that helps take care of Japanese Beetles by laying eggs on the beetle and then the larvae kill it. Would love an episode about that and how we can attract/protect that insect so we can get rid of the Japanese Beetle once and for all!
Just ordered some seeds today. Thank you for your valuable source of seeds/products and always great information! And why don’t you say ‘Go home’ after you say ‘Grow big’. ? Just wondered
I see them flying around at night here in my food forest , they look like little fairies flying around 🧚♀️ 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️ P.s I loved cops remix song !! 😆🤣
I had scale on my lemon tree last year. Its a creepy disgusting thing and like aphids, it has a relationship with ants. Took me a year to get rid of mostly just with physical removal and a lot of pruning, but so far the last 6 months it hasn't come back and the tree looks 10x better. Could you do a video on dill and the insects in it? I feel bad because I didn't know what ladybug larvae looked like and killed a bunch, I feel I'm not the only one, those things are gross looking.
I’m so excited about these! I put praying mantis in by the hundreds! I see a few now. Hoping they didn’t all get eaten. Will a soapy water spray kill mantis and lacewings? Thank for this episode 🐞
I have some that showed up naturally, but I noticed the other day I had one acting funky almost like it was stuck to a leaf and it had brown dots on it. Do you think a wasp got to it?
@@marksieber4626 Good question! Thankfully, I have no Spotted Lantern Flies in my garden, but there are a lot of them just three hours south of me. I dread what might come next year and hoping that there will be a predatory insect that can help take down the population.
In your future episodes, could you put pictures of the bug at the different stage of life? That would be very helpful.
Yes! Agree that would be extremely helpful.
I wish he'd done this for ladybugs, as I did not recognize the ladybug nymphs at first. It turns out they love my peppermint patch, so maybe mint is a good habitat for them.
Agreed
No
Typed in lacewing life stages to Google, then hit images. Lots of pictures
We just dust the garden in wood ash when the bugs become problems.
Just lightly coat everything as needed, it's fairly acidic but the rain washes it in.
Works on all kinds of bugs.
My granny would use a trigger handled metal flour sifter to dust the garden with on a breezy day.
It works good & she didn't do anything that wasn't 1000% organic to our garden beds.
She would use hoop plastic & netting but never any garden additives from the stores.
We made our own organic fertilizer with horse feed pellets soaked together with crushed Wood charcoal powder .
Everything I know of gardening is organic based because of my grandparents.
Love the bad bugs intro 😂
Nice video my man. Keep it up
Every year, our local extension office puts on a Garden Symposium around Earth Day. One of the workshops I attended was on beneficial insects, definitely a topic I’m interested to know more about. One of the things I learned is that fireflies eat slugs (or their larval do).
Need some fireflies!
Too many slugs here, although I've never seen a firefly in our area.
I wish they would do that in my area, I definitely would go. I get lots of fireflies and lots of slugs, but not as many since I started raising chickens.
There's a company that sells beneficial insects and has a ton of good info about them on their website.
I'd suggest using them as a reference to learn about different beneficials regardless of who you end up ordering from. The company is called Arbico Organics
The bad bugs intro?......do not quit your day job.....LUV it! Lol
Another good plant with large umbels is elderberry. It's a perennial that can grow into a huge tree, and produce hundreds of little flowers that attract beneficial insects. My elderberries are just a year old, and they're already 7-8' tall.
Mine WOULD be, but the deer keep consuming them. I have to figure out how to protect them better!
@@susangibbons312 I've got ravenous deer around here as well. They keep going after my sunchokes, but it's better they damage those than my more fragile plants. The best protection is a tall fence that they can't jump over, as well as spraying your vulnerable plants with a hot pepper solution to train the herbivores to stay away from them.
We love the bug videos 🐝🐞🦋🐛🐜 Have learned a lot watching your videos over the years.
Have seen several larvae in my garden. It would have been nice to show what the larvae looks like.
Could you do an episode on fireflies at some point? Fireflies aren't just pretty to observe at night. Firefly nymphs are predators of slugs, snails, and soft bodied insect pests.
I’m in Rochester Hills Michigan and we have tons of fireflies- why do I still have so many “Bad Bugs”? 🤣 Gotta get those Lacewings too 👍
First in-depth explanation I've had about how to successfully use predator bugs in the garden. Excellent. My neighbor in my community garden had a nest of yellow jackets appear and promptly poured hot soapy water down there to get rid of them. The next day I read that they kill the potato beetles that have been killing my potato crop this year. Of course they showed up! Too late.
Yellow jackets are also important pollinators, as are many other species of wasp. If you can live with them, it's worth it.
Yellow jackets killed my praying mantis. Dive bombed and tore their head off. I was SO MAD because I raised those mantis from babies and now I know why they disappeared.
Luke it would have been nice if you would shown pics of the stages of them
Hey Luke..I saw a plant in a really nice pot sitting out for trash. I grabbed it and brought home. Did research on the plant and found out it was a Bradford Pear Tree. Man…those thorns! Anyway, I cut it up and threw it away after finding out hoe invasive they are…but I got a really cool pot! 🤣👍
I bought some green lacewings, which are super cute, but I also managed to attract some BROWN lacewings (which eat pests as adults as well as larvae) and caught a couple to breed and lay eggs for me (with plenty of aphids from the garden to feed them). I've always been sad that you can't buy the brown ones but so happy I have a ton within my netted garden now.
You had me at thrips. I don’t know why but I have so many this year. I have lady bugs and hover flies but they don’t seem to want the thrips this year. Thank you for this series. 💚
I was in the garden early this season and saw eggs on a thread and killed them assuming they were bad bug eggs. I looked up what they were when I came inside and was absolutely horrified I did that :(. Definitely learned a lesson
I found some more today. Yipeeeeee!!!!
A first-time gardener here. My deck has turned into a nice container garden of berries, and vegetables in the beginning stages. I came across Green Lacewings, the other night, and I had no idea what it was. I had just potted my tomatoes and they flew around my face. I then sprayed them with neem oil. Oops. They sound like the cure to the pests that love my strawberry plant leaves.
A picture of lace wing eggs would be helpful. I had no idea what they looked like when I first saw them.
Thank you for doing this series. It is much needed info for my garden.
Thanks Luke, I love this series you're doing.
Love your channel!
Love this 👍🥰
Good information, thanks so much. Keep it coming❤.
Thanks so much for the bug tips Luke! I went and ordered several different types from Natures Good Guys right after the last video and am impressed thus far and cant wait for them to hatch and get to work!
I watched as a kid talking about Pandan plants on someone else’s channel to now as a family man. Congrats on your growth and professionalism.
So - I bought the lacewing larva. Under the magnifying glass, I only saw 2 moving in the whole bottle marked 1,000. I sure hope I was somehow just missing them. Hate to think I bought a bottle of rice hulls. Also bought beneficial nematodes. They are supposed to be compatible with lacewings ::fingers crossed::
I am so glad i am familiar w what lacewing eggx look like. I almost wiped them off the back of my kale (assumthere were aphids there) but i caught myself and keep checking on them. Makes me not want to harvest things now bc i want the larvae i cant see to hatch! Luke, thank you for all the information. Loved the intro btw😂
I have let the parsley go to flower and seed. They have an umbel type flower, will that help the lacewings also?
Thanks Luke! Great video!
Thank you, your info is just what i needed
Any videos on getting rid of slugs?
really like this series!
What video can I see your seasoned water garden in? I’ve been waiting but I’m so afraid I missed it! 😢
I know that there is an insect that helps take care of Japanese Beetles by laying eggs on the beetle and then the larvae kill it. Would love an episode about that and how we can attract/protect that insect so we can get rid of the Japanese Beetle once and for all!
Good topic for sure.
Just ordered some seeds today. Thank you for your valuable source of seeds/products and always great information! And why don’t you say ‘Go home’ after you say ‘Grow big’. ? Just wondered
Holy cow I was laughing my head off at your rendition of “bad bugs “
Do you have any recommendations on predators i can add that will thrive on ants in Michigan?
Nice series but would be even better if you showed pictures of the actual insects.
Where do the lacewings lay their eggs?
Being overrun by Queen Anne's Lace at my garden 3 years ago explains why I saw so many Ladybugs and Lacewings all the time over there lol
My house and garage have suddenly been overtaken by lacewings... IDK what i did but i must be doing something right! Now get them out! 😂
I wonder if they eat squash borers or carrot fly?
I'm sorry if you did these already and I missed it...but praying mantis and dragonflies are both bugs I would be interested in you covering.
I see them flying around at night here in my food forest , they look like little fairies flying around 🧚♀️ 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️
P.s I loved cops remix song !! 😆🤣
NO SMOKE FROM CANADA LUKE? We had vine bores in a couple squash plants. He got tulle to cover all veg plants. We are praying 🙏 🤲
Plenty of smoke. It's hazy almost every day.
@@MIgardener OH SO SORRY FOR YALL. I WILL KEEP PRAYING 🙏 🤲
How can I get rid of carpenter ants in my attic , since I can't go up there to spray . what do you recommend , thanks . Love your videos.
Your voice always reminds me of an auctioneer 😂😂
Is there a good bug that controls squash bugs?
I had scale on my lemon tree last year. Its a creepy disgusting thing and like aphids, it has a relationship with ants. Took me a year to get rid of mostly just with physical removal and a lot of pruning, but so far the last 6 months it hasn't come back and the tree looks 10x better. Could you do a video on dill and the insects in it? I feel bad because I didn't know what ladybug larvae looked like and killed a bunch, I feel I'm not the only one, those things are gross looking.
I doubt it can exterminate my spider mite issue from my strawberry bed. Im using my hose on jet, DE and insecticide spray with alcohol
Haha! Loved the intro!
Will they rid my plants of cucumber beetles???
Where can you buy beneficial bugs??
The company he named at the beginning of the vid. Also Arbico Organics--I'm sure there are others.
Where do we get these beneficial bugs?
I’m so excited about these! I put praying mantis in by the hundreds! I see a few now. Hoping they didn’t all get eaten. Will a soapy water spray kill mantis and lacewings? Thank for this episode 🐞
I have some that showed up naturally, but I noticed the other day I had one acting funky almost like it was stuck to a leaf and it had brown dots on it. Do you think a wasp got to it?
Hmmm,... wondering how to tell GL eggs from any other eggs on my plants.
I have the worst problem with cabbage worms this year. They are eating so much. Also the tiny brown grass hoppers.
Where can you get these?
I need to control peach tree borer
Is there a bug that feeds on Japanese beetles?
Does soapy spray kill beneficial bugs?
Just looked in your catalog and on your site and I don’t see lacewings being sold there. Are you going to be selling them anytime soon?
They're a sponsor that he named near the beginning of the vid.
Do they eat cucumber beetles, I have a ton this year?
Do they overwinter? For next year?
Good bugs for garden
Would they live in Western Colorado?
Will they control mealybugs?
Do u have a link to the green lacewing products
i've just released mine, i hope they survived 🤣
What kind of bugs eat cucumber beetles and squash bugs?
What about west seaboard Canada
Definitely!
Are praying mantis good to have in the garden
They can be, but I hate them because I raise butterflies and mantis kill them :(
I haven’t seen any indication of larvae after 2 weeks. I have mine in the small boxes. Are mine duds?
You won't see them. They are very small.
Will they get after spotted lantern flys
@@marksieber4626 Good question! Thankfully, I have no Spotted Lantern Flies in my garden, but there are a lot of them just three hours south of me. I dread what might come next year and hoping that there will be a predatory insect that can help take down the population.
Can they survive in Arizona?
Yes!
@@MIgardenerawesome gonna give that a try my calendula is really taking a hit from the pests, thanks for the video Luke 👍
Well I’m going to push to get my 2 days together it’s BS HAVING YOUR DAYS OFF SPLIT
They are not very helpful in an whitefly infested greenhouse
I just unsubed, after your garlic vid it now leaves me wondering about all your other vids....
Where do we get these beneficial bugs?