Light House
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Being a pro-active gardener I like to stay ahead of my pests. However lately I have heard more and more about root aphids after a recent scare at the commercial facility. For those of you that do not know what these are head over to this post for THE most detailed all in one source about these "scariest of all" pests; http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=159960 .
After reading the post, I scared myself with what I thought was one in the warehouse, chucked the plant, phew! Because if you look through the information on this bug it is devastating. Wiping out huge amounts of plants with little leading symptoms. In my eye this is the worse predator out there!
My question is what are the prevention matters? I have purchased now Bayer and Spectacide as just in case chemical bashes. All I can see to prevent these bugs from taking over your crop is to use nematodes along with brewing various teas to increase beneficial. Which if used spectacide will eradicate of those beneficial so dammit!
Diatamacheous earth is talked little throughout the post and want to know what you all think about its effects on the bug. Remember they do not necessarily crawl to the service so a top layer isn't going to suffice what about a mix of 4 cups per gal of soil? As a strong preventative against anything in soil down deep, possible even layering diatamacheous earth throughout pots?
What do you all think?
After reading the post, I scared myself with what I thought was one in the warehouse, chucked the plant, phew! Because if you look through the information on this bug it is devastating. Wiping out huge amounts of plants with little leading symptoms. In my eye this is the worse predator out there!
My question is what are the prevention matters? I have purchased now Bayer and Spectacide as just in case chemical bashes. All I can see to prevent these bugs from taking over your crop is to use nematodes along with brewing various teas to increase beneficial. Which if used spectacide will eradicate of those beneficial so dammit!
Diatamacheous earth is talked little throughout the post and want to know what you all think about its effects on the bug. Remember they do not necessarily crawl to the service so a top layer isn't going to suffice what about a mix of 4 cups per gal of soil? As a strong preventative against anything in soil down deep, possible even layering diatamacheous earth throughout pots?
What do you all think?