Time Stamps. It is important to identify insects, so you know the best way to treat them. Here are 7 bad insects you don’t want in your garden or on your garden plants.
0:00 Introduction
1:07 The White Butterfly that Lays ‘Bad’ Eggs
1:52 Green Worms & Cabbage Worms
3:36 Snails & Slugs
5:40 Harlequin Beetles
7:48 Flea Beetles
10:10 Spotted Lantern Fly Nymphs/Young
12:32 Colorado Potato Beetles
14:33 Whiteflies & Whitefly Eggs
18:25 Treatment Products & Options
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I have a gang of fungus gnats I saw some gardeners use nematodes going to try that I've used neem oil in the past but going to try this method this time around.
Spotted lanternfly larvae is what you're looking at.
Howdy im a maryland gardener here too! Will the liquid sevin work? I got potato bugs
I have so much trouble with the Mexican bean beetles. They decimated all of my green beans the last two years. I'm still deciding if it's worth it this year. I used your recipe for peppermint & rosemary spray but didn't keep up with it.
wasps take care of the green worms. the wasps dont understand that the garden is big enough for the two of us, but i welcome wasps.
Those black with white dots are spotted lantern fly babies. Nymph?
The bugs are the reason why I only grow salad greens indoor hydroponically 😢 I don’t want my salad to get bug bites or sprayed with chemicals 😢
thanks! any recommendations for blister beetles? they are highly destructive and can be dangerous.
GREAT video Gary. Thank you for all the time you spend educating us. I so much appreciate this. Happy Gardening from Vermont
AS an Arborist , I am constantly looking for all types of destructive insects in my plants , one of best control concepts is understanding the over wintering of each insect. This will allow you to be proactive in minimizing these little buggers populations lol.
We have the white butterfly here in SO cal year round it seems. I grow kale and other vegetable plants that they like year round. I don't treat my garden for any insects. I spay water on aphids and white fly to wash away and remove those little catapillars by hand.
Thanks Gary.Good info As soon as I put out my eggplants I cover them until plants have grown larger and putting out blossoms.Seems like they are not bothered too much then and I can remove the covers
I appreciate your vids Gary. They're often quite informative and practical. However, this video had 5 ads on it. The ad in the middle of the video was several minutes long. I downvoted this vid for that reason. The content was great. The excessive ads just seems greedy. Just my .02.
They are spotted lanternfly nymph!
For potato bugs, I have found planting beans (specifically yellow and purple wax beans) between each potato row, close enough to touch, to eliminate the problem for me. I haven't seen a single potato bug in 7 years of doing this. Last year I had a forgotten potato plant grow on the other side of the garden where I had no beans and yep… the potato bugs found it and ate it. They left my other ones alone though. 🙂
Try using used coffee grounds to repel flea beetles. Mulch beneath the plants with it.
Very informative! Thank you!
The pickleworm is my nemisis. They don't just infest cucumbers, they infest summer squash too. They show up, just as the first fruit is ripening. There is nothing worse, than picking a cucumber or squash, and finding it is riddled with pickleworm holes with pickle worms eating the fruit from the inside out, except not seeing the bore hole, and biting into the fruit and getting a mough full of pickleworm surprise. LOL. The only thing I've found that works is regular treatments with Spinosad, or BT. I'm hoping it works for hornworms too. Last year, they devastated my tomato crop overnight. I had to remove four damaged dreveloping tomatoes because of cut worm damage, and found two cutworms. They've been terminated with prejudice.
Gary the black with white spots they are baby Lantern flys. They go from black and white to red and white
Flea Beetles (FYI) i saw this online
Use floating row covers as a barrier to prevent adults from getting to your plants.
Apply Hb Beneficial Nematodes once adults emerge in spring to kill larvae in the soil.
Surround WP (kaolin clay) prevents flea beetles from landing on your plants and deters feeding. Reapply as needed throughout the growing season once adults are spotted.
BotaniGard Maxx & other B. bassiana sprays infect and kill adult flea beetles. Repeat applications as needed throughout the growing season.
Great video
I have a pill bug infestation this year and they love to eat my strawberries. I treated with bait. I think the same stuff that kills slugs. Did you ever use surround to treat beetles? I'm trying it on my eggplants this year to see how it works. I know what you're talking about with those horrible flea beetles. I never tried spinosad but do want to get some.
Excellent video! Thanks for the info 💚
Gary, I have 2 raised planters that I plant my scarlet runner beans in every year! They have done great every year except this year! One box has a small amount of damage, the other young tender plants have been destroyed!! I just can't figure it out? Little tiny holes, some leaves are totally gone? Can you please help me?? I can't find anything on the plants.
This year, I rigged up a frame using extra posts/stakes and overlayed greens tulle to keep (hopefully!) the cabbage butterflies off my cabbages and kale. Last two year they wreaked havoc so hopefully this tulle does the trick.
The black and white ones are baby lantern flies. They destroyed my garden last year.
This was very helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Great job
Thanks for this great video. I just put in my zucchinis and my goal is to control the vine borers. Would putting DE in the soil as I’m planting be a helpful preventative?
I don't use any product that also kills the beneficial bugs. We need them!
Copper sulfate for snails. Mix 1 spoon in a gallon of water and spray them all. It also works as a fertilizer on flowering…
I agree with you on cabbage worms. I've used BT with success for years. This year I had planned on just trying a row cover, but life got in the way, and I'm not doing a lot of brassicas this year. So that idea will be shelved until next year.
Harlequin Beetles are the bane of my garden. They do almost as much damage as rabbits. Unfortunately nothing kills them, including your suggestions.
On potato beetles, I've found neem to be very effective. It's pretty much my go to when I see them.
As for the other insects, I don't have any problems with them.
Just as an FYI Bug-geta is VERY TOXIC to dogs! I lost a dog to it after I treated an area. I won't go into details about exactly what happened, because it's too painful, but she died a horrible death a few hours later. If you insist on using it, SUPERVISE your pet around that area for a few days after.
I go straight for the 7,Im a regular duster.
Yes, Sevin is THE magic number!
Got to bookmark this video!
Wow, very well thought out & presented!
Thanks!!
My vegetable garden is adjacent to my "native plant/butterfly garden" and I have never had to treat my plants for insects. Maybe that's because of where I live, maybe not, but I usually just let nature take it's course, and I don't have any big problems. The only real threat to my plants is rabbits.
I'm pretty sure that white butterfly was mating or trying to anyway.
Thank you for this video. The close-ups are really helpful. You mentioned "dusting" several times. Could you please give us a demonstration of exactly how to do that? Like, is it taking a makeup brush and shaking it over the leaves, or what? Thanks.
Great video and so helpful
Awesome video, Gary! You identified a new insect for me: flea beetles! No one at the garden stores knew what was causing the pinhole damage to my tomato leaves. Now I know to use insect dust to treat them. Your videos are my go-to source for all things gardening! Thank you so much!
Have you heard or what do you think about kitchen flour for grasshoppers??
can i use baking soda on my eggplant and cucumber
Definitely spotted lantern fly invasive species and VERY destructive to grape and some hardwood trees. They’re horrible! Tree of heaven is their host, so if you have any close to your property, have them completely removed.
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