Re: [CH] pubescens pest problem
Love2Troll (Love2Troll@kc.rr.com)
Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:55:30 -0600
> I would be worried the ladybugs would migrate to the rest of the house. A few years ago over the winter our whole house became infested with ladybugs. There were literaly thousands of them everywhere.
Charlie,
Now you tell me! LOL I've heard that those Asian ladybugs can invade houses bigtime in the winter. And for all I know that's what I bought. There seems to be two diff kinds in the shipment I received.
Oh well, my peppers come first.
JohnT
----- Original Message -----
From: CES
To: chile-heads
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:51 PM
Subject: RE: [CH] pubescens pest problem
I hope that works out for you O.K. . I would be worried the ladybugs would
migrate to the rest of the house. A few years ago over the winter our whole
house became infested with ladybugs. There were literaly thousands of them
everywhere. They would be all over the ceilings and at night they would drop
on you as you slept. Hopefully that won't happen in your case.
Charlie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com
> [mailto:owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com]On Behalf Of Love2Troll
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:07 PM
> To: chile-heads
> Subject: [CH] pubescens pest problem
>
>
> Jan 12th I found that many of my basement plants were suddenly infested:
>
> http://www.fototime.com/D43C173E24B82AC/orig.jpg
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> So I ordered some pest controllers as I'm not much for
> pesticides. On Jan 15th got this:
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> http://www.fototime.com/7A2E64D1DFC2CA5/orig.jpg
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> Which contained these:
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> http://www.fototime.com/F02EE36828095F5/orig.jpg
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> I sprinkled aprox 500 over the plants. Took a couple pix of them today:
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> http://www.fototime.com/B36D9C4FFC33B01/orig.jpg
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> http://www.fototime.com/686EF36E08D8788/orig.jpg
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> The other 1000 or so I put in the fridge. And even though I
> don't think you are supposed to do it, am going to put several
> hundred in the freezer and see if they will live after a couple
> of weeks or not.
>
> Yesterday after putting them on the plants they mostly crawled
> around until the lights went off a few hours later. Today they
> seem to be right at home and not moving much. I can only hope
> that they get enough of the right stuff to eat & lay eggs. I
> don't have a lot of blossoms and think they need nectar & pollen,
> but maybe they don't. Should be interesting to see what happens.
>
> http://www.buglogical.com/ladybugs.shtml
>
> JohnT
>