So you kill everything good in your soil? This is stupidity. The soil is alive. You don’t want to kill it. The Earth is alive and it reads you don’t want to kill it.
I heard a quote somewhere that basically summed to if you cant find a class teach yourself, i feel like with this being such a niche subject its a bit difficult to get into entomology compared to more common classes and videos like this make it so much more accessible to study
I know this is late, but I’m wondering if I should give up on some wilting and diseases displaced hydrangeas I tried to save. They have very few leaves with red and black spots. Another is my Nectarine and peach trees which have leaf curl, rust, and are oozing sap at the bottom. I’ve only gotten 3 peaches in the past 4 years.
Greeting Doc! I have a few questions and perhaps you can assist me with answering them; A.I. and I get nowhere together. A Virgin Tiger Moth (Apantesis Virgo) laid ~50 eggs on my peach jam jar. I felt obligated and so I protected them until about 8 days later when they ALL hatched (emerged). They have been eating dandelion ever since. Harnessed Tiger Moth's and Virgin Tiger Moths look VERY similar and so there is a possibility that they are Harnessed and not Virgin Tiger moth pupae... However, if you are able to answer any of the following questions it is *MUCH* appreciated, thank you: (1) Given the captive setting, abundance of food and climate controlled environment about how many days apart would you say each instar should/will occur for this species? I am curious for management reasons, seeing as how there are ~50 of them, to know how often their instars occur; the number of days between instars. (2) When do you think sticks should be introduced into their habitat? (3) Do these [~6mm long] caterpillars require sticks to instar (molt)? Or are sticks reserved for for cocooning purposes? (4) Based on available knowledge and in consideration of the fact that we're in the mid-west of the US, between 36 and 37 degrees N of the equator, and that it is mid-September, are these caterpillars likely to overwinter as caterpillars? Or are they likely to go ahead and cocoon (complete metamorphosis) before winter arrives? ANYTHING HELPS AND THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH!! I really appreciate it! Thank you for your time and for the informative video!
I’m worried that if I pull up a sickly looking plant to examine the roots, I will kill the plant and it might not have had nematodes and there might have been a completely different problem.☹️
Can everyone please help me, I accidentally touched my hand to fly larvae and I washed my hands many times but still can't get rid of the smell. Sometimes the is not so much, but sometimes the smell is stronger and my hand hurts in an inexplicable way, what should I do?
This has been my worst year ever because of cut worms. I never had them before now. I started with 50 egg plant and assorted pepper plants with a few other things like spearmint and rosemary. I now have 9 plants remaining. What amazed me was how methodical the cut worm were. Nightly they work their way through the garden lopping off the tops of plants. I've dug for them and been out late at night but have never found one. The collars did the job but other remedies were hit and miss. I turned my failed gardening experience into a learning lab so all is not lost.
I wonder why she keeps mentioning Irish potatoes as if that variety has properties other potato varieties don't? I hope she doesn't think potatoes are from Ireland!
I came here to learn how entomologists do their job. Plus my family hates bugs in the house, and I set them all free in the wild, unless it’s a non native, invasive species.
This info is so good and really well put together so thank you so much but you sound so bored and worn out from reading the script like a high school student randomly called on to read Shakespeare
I don’t say this to be mean so I’m sorry if that came across as super rude I just mean that it was good solid info but very hard to follow along with a narrator that doesn’t seem to have a cohesive understanding of the material themselves enough to be able to just talk about the subject alongside a bulleted presentation rather than literally reading every word from a script and having to pause to correct your reading mistakes and losing focus from the audience within that
argh, just pulled up tomatoes, which struggled this year, as did eggplants. cucumbers and carrots also showed knots on roots, when pulled them up, but crop was fine. we had one big rain at start of summer, which made veggie patch soggy for a few days. i think that's when the nematodes went to work. it's autumn now and veggie patch has been quite soggy. i'm digging hydrated lime into soil, to make it drain better and dry up. none of the plants are having issues with the ph spike. seem to love the calcium. i heard you can use sugar against the nematodes. can i just broadcast some sugar? what rate? thanks
