Yeah! It's Bud Worm Season. Pics

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gioua

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FresnoFarmer said:
Bro......I have huge black bumblebees and i water shirtless......don't fuck with them and they won't fuck with......but any sudden movements......and your ass is grass lol......I have had to drop my watering can and run like a bitch on a few occasions lol
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I use to do that.. now I just dont move when those effers are near.. had a mud wasp land on my hand once.. not sure if they sting.. but they sure as hell make me nervous...
 
FresnoFarmer

FresnoFarmer

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gioua said:
I use to do that.. now I just dont move when those effers are near.. had a mud wasp land on my hand once.. not sure if they sting.. but they sure as hell make me nervous...
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lol I tried the "stay still" technique.. It works the majority of the time. Sometimes the bumblebees will fly right in front of my face and hover and then fly away because I pose no threat. But then there are some bumblebees that will just straight try to attack me lol. I don't even worry about the wasps.....I water my planting bed all the time and they are always rummaging through the flowers on my pepper and tomato plants.
 
Laney

Laney

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Those large bees are carpenter bees. They are very curious and like to hover around you watching what you are doing. They rarely sting (it costs them their lives). Wasps are a different story. I tolerate them only because they are good pollinators and predators but I kill the nests when I see them. I've had a couple of large local reactions to wasp stings and they are not pleasant. Fortunately none this year and I was only stung twice so far.

The last time I was stung it was out of the blue - I was lolling in a gravity chair on the deck with my eyes closed, not moving. So much for the don't bother them, they won't bother you theory. Totally pissed me off and I killed that sucker deader than a hammer.
 
FresnoFarmer

FresnoFarmer

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Laney said:
Those large bees are carpenter bees. They are very curious and like to hover around you watching what you are doing. They rarely sting (it costs them their lives). Wasps are a different story. I tolerate them only because they are good pollinators and predators but I kill the nests when I see them. I've had a couple of large local reactions to wasp stings and they are not pleasant. Fortunately none this year and I was only stung twice so far.

The last time I was stung it was out of the blue - I was lolling in a gravity chair on the deck with my eyes closed, not moving. So much for the don't bother them, they won't bother you theory. Totally pissed me off and I killed that sucker deader than a hammer.
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Yeah the carpenter bees live in a huge pile of leaves behind the fence around my planting bed. I have never been stung by a wasp.......Just a regular bee and it hurt but only for like 30 minutes and then I got over it lol.....I hear wasp stings hurt more like a bite than a pinch......let's hope I don't find out lol.......So how has your pest control been going? Ever since I started alternating the BT and Neem I haven't seen any bite marks on my leaves from worms. I think I'm going to start spraying Neem in my screenhouse now too because the grasshoppers are coming back since my praying mantis' left.
 
Laney

Laney

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I haven't had any real issues. I still see a little nibbling but that's to be expected. To be frank, the bugs aren't that bad here. This is the first year I've even bothered to spray (it was the first time I had leaf-rollers) and so the once per week seems sufficient. I may even stretch it to once each 10 days.
 
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Teccmoney

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wasps were trying to build a nest in my vanilla kush and i knocked that sucker down asap, i dont want them making my garden home..... im going to go out early tomorrow morning when it is cooler to check for more nests. I guess they think my plants are real trees lol....
 
FresnoFarmer

FresnoFarmer

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Teccmoney said:
wasps were trying to build a nest in my vanilla kush and i knocked that sucker down asap, i dont want them making my garden home..... im going to go out early tomorrow morning when it is cooler to check for more nests. I guess they think my plants are real trees lol....
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lol.....If you look on youtube there is a guy who recorded him removing a bird nest out of one of his "trees" lol. It was quite amusing
 
FresnoFarmer

FresnoFarmer

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Laney said:
I haven't had any real issues. I still see a little nibbling but that's to be expected. To be frank, the bugs aren't that bad here. This is the first year I've even bothered to spray (it was the first time I had leaf-rollers) and so the once per week seems sufficient. I may even stretch it to once each 10 days.
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I went out to my screenhouse to check on my ladies earlier and ended up facing off a 4 inch grasshopper lol.....I will definitely be spraying some Neem tonight.
 
SenorBrownWater

SenorBrownWater

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reading this thread make me feel hella lucky..
only shit we got here is cucumber beetles and scale
we have grass hoppers and deer but they don't eat my draw for some reason...
 
HUSTLERBOY20

HUSTLERBOY20

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do wasps eat sunflower leaves to make their paper nests...I have something eating them and I don't see pillars lol..any one else growing sun flowers ?
 
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nowhereland

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fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuckkk so is now a good time to spray the buds cause last year they were deep in core of the bud

ive been sprayin em though so i hope iam covered
 
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