Parasitic wasps can be incredibly beneficial in the garden. The Trichogramma parasitic wasp controls cabbage moth, tomato hornworm, tent caterpillars, and other creepy crawly chewing bugs.
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43 Comments
Hold up if this stings you do you get parasites?
Tomato 🍅 catapiller / worms
Yes keep them comeing …..this is a no brainer…thank you
What a cool thing 🎉
Don't eat bugs, parasites.
What about butterfly caterpillars?
How do you know if you’re actually hatching and doing any good?
Would be nice to have a link to a wasp seller.
You should mention that growing things like Dill attracts parasitic wasps.
Thank you! I love seeing the eggs attached to those evil tomato horn worms.
"Name something a caterpillar would not want to see when he breaks into a garden"
Buzzer
"Tricho gramma!"
"Trich- wha?"
Ding ding ding
So the name of the wasp makes me think of that family feud clip the whole time XD
Very interesting! I just saw my first tomato hornworm today..couldn`t figure what was destroying my bell pepper plants (but not the other peppers) Now I know! Ugliest thing I`ve ever seen! I think I see tent caterpillars starting in 1 of my pecan trees..so gonna get some of these wasps right away! Thank you for the info!
I’d love to see more videos about bugs that help with pests, I heard praying mantis don’t have that much of an effect compared to the wasps and lady bugs though. I’m wondering what other bugs are really effective
I’m allergic to bees 🐝. 😂
This is SO interesting. Gross and scary to me, because I'm allergic and terrified of wasps, but still extremely interesting!
Luckily I live in a town where we can keep chickens 😂
Once again, thank you Luke!
Also the garden spider and the Awesome web it creates..I see plenty of victims in the web..which Helps me and the WEB IT SELF IS LOVELY 🕷️ 🌱
And I have tons of Lizzards that also eat them pest ..I see them in action
I would love to see more videos like this.
I'm experiencing the strangest year this spring/summer. Almost no bugs, and definitely very few beneficials; we did get aphids and those biting ants showed up. Seen a few bumble bees and a few dragon flies. Otherwise, my environment, southern VT, is void of most life.
Thanks for the info, as always.
I’m curious if you have to worry about introducing a new bug to my ecosystem. Living in Alaska, doesn’t sound like they’ll survive a winter, so they aren’t native.
Guess I have a new topic to research! Woohoo, thanks MI Gardner!
I've let last year's parsley go to seed hoping to attract hover flies and parasitic wasps. Plus, when that goes into the compost I'll be sure to have more parsley in the spring. I love that!
I would love to see more of these videos. I stopped using even the organic pesticides and following the "no mow May" on some parts of my property (like they do in the UK) to attract the beneficials. It would be helpful to know which insects eat what pests.
How can I encourage the parasitic wasps to arrive naturally rather than buying them?
Love it!
Yes love these videos. ❤
Love the opening song.
Bad thing is the parasitic wasps also attach our pollinator caterpillars. I grow herbs and milkweed to feed the Eastern Black swallowtails and Monarchs. I have to take them inside enclosures to keep them safe from the parasitic wasps that will lay eggs inside their bodies.
I have a nice supply of these in my garden/yard so I never worry about the worms, I also use preventive insect barriers on my brassicas to prevent damage in the first place. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
We had a huge outbreak of tent caterpillars this year…zone 8/8b ….many of them had several white dots on their heads indicating the parasitic wasps had been very busy taking care of them…the pin apples and pin cherries and willow trees are finally leafing out again.
Yes please, more good bug videos! 😁😁 also, maybe link the previous ones? 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Luke. I'm interested in natural ways to get rid of pests in my garden. Keep them coming.
Looks good! Thank you for the info Luke.
Yaay !! Now we've got a chance to win this gm-bug war ..lol. Luke, you're a world hero for this one. .. Absolutely More on this topic. 🍒
Amazing.
Would these parasitic wasps give honeybees a problem?
I thought he was saying "Tracky Grandmas". 😂
🎉Great video! Definitely do more of these.🎉
i would like o see a video about Beneficial Nematodes
Sounds like the movie Alien!
Love this series!