anybody brave enought to let lacewings loose in your house to eat mealybugs?

[HorseloverFat]

I released 500 ladybugs in our plant lab at school. Janitor would not talk to me for a year!

Back when I grew Chiles primarily.. I would collect many local ladybugs....

The FIRST year... I collected ANY creature that RESEMBLED a ladybug.... THAT..... was a mistake.

 

[AJL]

Hopefully not Colorado beetles?

 

[Forsoothe!]

some chick on youtube lets predatory insects loose in her house a lot. She lives in california though so they probably just open the windows and let some escape if it gets out of hand. Might be a bit much to do in December/January in Lancaster

There are alcoholics, drug addicts, murderers, nudists, politicians, preachers of every stripe, el al all over the place. Just because we say, do, believe or disbelieve something doesn't mean it's right, or wrong for that matter. Fortunately, we can make up our own minds, -sort of. If I bought bugs and let them go in the house I would find my plant remains on the sidewalk in-between the shards of pots and underneath my clothes and personal items.

 

[AZbonsai]

I released 500 ladybugs in our plant lab at school. Janitor would not talk to me for a year!

They did a stellar job on our aphid infestation.....a bit hard to remove from the light fixtures from what I am lead to believe.

 

[HorseloverFat]

They did a stellar job on our aphid infestation.....a bit hard to remove from the light fixtures from what I am lead to believe.

Yes! And YES!

 

[leatherback]

As long as it's live, I believe your safe....I mean, this guy seems fine?

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I was thinking about a more global challenge..

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China - Nature Communications

Bats are a likely reservoir of zoonotic coronaviruses (CoVs). Here, analyzing bat CoV sequences in China, the authors find that alpha-CoVs have switched hosts more frequently than betaCoVs, identify a bat family and genus that are highly involved in host-switching, and define hotspots of CoV...

www.nature.com

 

[JackHammer]

I was at the end of my rope with a mealy bug infestation. I dumped a ton of rubbing alcohol on my fukian tea and it did work. Sprayed the leaves heavily too. Not sure about neem or soap. The leaves were sticky from the bugs for a few months but the tree made a full recovery.

 

[hinmo24t]

water/hydrogen peroxide solution. a strong one


you tried neem?

 

[JackHammer]

water/hydrogen peroxide solution. a strong one


you tried neem?

Doesn't hydrogen peroxide pick up an atom and become water after a few hours? Not sure why i know this but it is also a good thing to drink if you want to induce vomiting. ...for those really special moments when you think about your ex.

 

[hinmo24t]

Doesn't hydrogen peroxide pick up an atom and become water after a few hours? Not sure why i know this but it is also a good thing to drink if you want to induce vomiting. ...for those really special moments when you think about your ex.

i mouthwash with it daily, you could be right about what you said. w proper ratio it can be beneficial to a struggling plant. almost fertilizes it. prob burns the insects, sizzles them out

 

[sorce]

Since I've seen no Centipedes in my indoor stuff, nothing but problems.

#notacoincidence

Sorce