How To Raise Green Lacewings In The Garden

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Green lacewings are the Batman of the garden! They come to the rescue whenever you are in trouble. In this episode we will show you how to release them and raise them in the garden so they thrive.
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24 июл 2024

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@sajmt1414 Год назад

In your future episodes, could you put pictures of the bug at the different stage of life? That would be very helpful.

@Nikki-mx5my Год назад

Yes! Agree that would be extremely helpful.

@FrozEnbyWolf150 Год назад

I wish he'd done this for ladybugs, as I did not recognize the ladybug nymphs at first. It turns out they love my peppermint patch, so maybe mint is a good habitat for them.

@chert3841 Год назад

Agreed

@joe1071 Год назад

@jarredkushnerd13 Год назад

Typed in lacewing life stages to Google, then hit images. Lots of pictures

@noneshere Год назад

We just dust the garden in wood ash when the bugs become problems. Just lightly coat everything as needed, it's fairly acidic but the rain washes it in. Works on all kinds of bugs. My granny would use a trigger handled metal flour sifter to dust the garden with on a breezy day. It works good & she didn't do anything that wasn't 1000% organic to our garden beds. She would use hoop plastic & netting but never any garden additives from the stores. We made our own organic fertilizer with horse feed pellets soaked together with crushed Wood charcoal powder . Everything I know of gardening is organic based because of my grandparents.

@AugustLeo1619 Год назад

Love the bad bugs intro 😂

@Nikki-mx5my Год назад

Every year, our local extension office puts on a Garden Symposium around Earth Day. One of the workshops I attended was on beneficial insects, definitely a topic I’m interested to know more about. One of the things I learned is that fireflies eat slugs (or their larval do).

@susanhenley8240 Год назад

Need some fireflies! Too many slugs here, although I've never seen a firefly in our area.

@tinamitchell3764 Год назад

I wish they would do that in my area, I definitely would go. I get lots of fireflies and lots of slugs, but not as many since I started raising chickens.

@zeruty 8 месяцев назад

There's a company that sells beneficial insects and has a ton of good info about them on their website. I'd suggest using them as a reference to learn about different beneficials regardless of who you end up ordering from. The company is called Arbico Organics

@FrozEnbyWolf150 Год назад

Another good plant with large umbels is elderberry. It's a perennial that can grow into a huge tree, and produce hundreds of little flowers that attract beneficial insects. My elderberries are just a year old, and they're already 7-8' tall.

@susangibbons312 Год назад

Mine WOULD be, but the deer keep consuming them. I have to figure out how to protect them better!

@FrozEnbyWolf150 Год назад

@@susangibbons312 I've got ravenous deer around here as well. They keep going after my sunchokes, but it's better they damage those than my more fragile plants. The best protection is a tall fence that they can't jump over, as well as spraying your vulnerable plants with a hot pepper solution to train the herbivores to stay away from them.

@lesliee6721 Год назад

You had me at thrips. I don’t know why but I have so many this year. I have lady bugs and hover flies but they don’t seem to want the thrips this year. Thank you for this series. 💚

@richm5889 Год назад

First in-depth explanation I've had about how to successfully use predator bugs in the garden. Excellent. My neighbor in my community garden had a nest of yellow jackets appear and promptly poured hot soapy water down there to get rid of them. The next day I read that they kill the potato beetles that have been killing my potato crop this year. Of course they showed up! Too late.

@FrozEnbyWolf150 Год назад

Yellow jackets are also important pollinators, as are many other species of wasp. If you can live with them, it's worth it.

@anaconaway Год назад

Yellow jackets killed my praying mantis. Dive bombed and tore their head off. I was SO MAD because I raised those mantis from babies and now I know why they disappeared.

@anaconaway Год назад

I bought some green lacewings, which are super cute, but I also managed to attract some BROWN lacewings (which eat pests as adults as well as larvae) and caught a couple to breed and lay eggs for me (with plenty of aphids from the garden to feed them). I've always been sad that you can't buy the brown ones but so happy I have a ton within my netted garden now.

@cbass2755 Год назад

Hey Luke..I saw a plant in a really nice pot sitting out for trash. I grabbed it and brought home. Did research on the plant and found out it was a Bradford Pear Tree. Man…those thorns! Anyway, I cut it up and threw it away after finding out hoe invasive they are…but I got a really cool pot! 🤣👍

@user-bm3bn3dx5e Год назад

We love the bug videos 🐝🐞🦋🐛🐜 Have learned a lot watching your videos over the years.

@Carol32547 Год назад

The bad bugs intro?......do not quit your day job.....LUV it! Lol

@FrozEnbyWolf150 Год назад

Could you do an episode on fireflies at some point? Fireflies aren't just pretty to observe at night. Firefly nymphs are predators of slugs, snails, and soft bodied insect pests.

@FlowerxLady Год назад

I’m in Rochester Hills Michigan and we have tons of fireflies- why do I still have so many “Bad Bugs”? 🤣 Gotta get those Lacewings too 👍

@theveggieboys Год назад

Nice video my man. Keep it up

@kelleyleblanc5025 Год назад

I was in the garden early this season and saw eggs on a thread and killed them assuming they were bad bug eggs. I looked up what they were when I came inside and was absolutely horrified I did that :(. Definitely learned a lesson

@kelleyleblanc5025 Год назад

I found some more today. Yipeeeeee!!!!

@tinamitchell3764 Год назад

Thanks Luke, I love this series you're doing.

@codysmashey5901 Год назад

Thank you for doing this series. It is much needed info for my garden.

@jillwright8196 Год назад

Thanks so much for the bug tips Luke! I went and ordered several different types from Natures Good Guys right after the last video and am impressed thus far and cant wait for them to hatch and get to work!

@traceythompson7895 Год назад

I am so glad i am familiar w what lacewing eggx look like. I almost wiped them off the back of my kale (assumthere were aphids there) but i caught myself and keep checking on them. Makes me not want to harvest things now bc i want the larvae i cant see to hatch! Luke, thank you for all the information. Loved the intro btw😂

@AlSween 3 месяца назад

A first-time gardener here. My deck has turned into a nice container garden of berries, and vegetables in the beginning stages. I came across Green Lacewings, the other night, and I had no idea what it was. I had just potted my tomatoes and they flew around my face. I then sprayed them with neem oil. Oops. They sound like the cure to the pests that love my strawberry plant leaves.

@adambathon 4 месяца назад

Love your channel!

@FlowerxLady Год назад

Love this 👍🥰

@angelaanderson5360 Год назад

Have seen several larvae in my garden. It would have been nice to show what the larvae looks like.

@LauranceTanza Год назад

I watched as a kid talking about Pandan plants on someone else’s channel to now as a family man. Congrats on your growth and professionalism.

@angelzhomestead Год назад

Thank you, your info is just what i needed

@heidibentz390 Год назад

really like this series!

@lorayejones4777 Год назад

Good information, thanks so much. Keep it coming❤.

@Grandma.Lilly. Год назад

A picture of lace wing eggs would be helpful. I had no idea what they looked like when I first saw them.

@NuggetFarm2011 Год назад

Thanks Luke! Great video!

@joejoe3185 Год назад

Luke it would have been nice if you would shown pics of the stages of them

@jancaligiuri3623 Год назад

I have let the parsley go to flower and seed. They have an umbel type flower, will that help the lacewings also?

@thoppy9508 Год назад

What video can I see your seasoned water garden in? I’ve been waiting but I’m so afraid I missed it! 😢

@sandralafond3818 Год назад

So - I bought the lacewing larva. Under the magnifying glass, I only saw 2 moving in the whole bottle marked 1,000. I sure hope I was somehow just missing them. Hate to think I bought a bottle of rice hulls. Also bought beneficial nematodes. They are supposed to be compatible with lacewings ::fingers crossed::

@creationsfromthetable5291 Год назад

Holy cow I was laughing my head off at your rendition of “bad bugs “

@beth.marie.1 Год назад

Haha! Loved the intro!

@TryItWithRanch Год назад

Do you have any recommendations on predators i can add that will thrive on ants in Michigan?

@mellyg8872 Год назад

Just ordered some seeds today. Thank you for your valuable source of seeds/products and always great information! And why don’t you say ‘Go home’ after you say ‘Grow big’. ? Just wondered

@Markephillips77 Год назад

I know that there is an insect that helps take care of Japanese Beetles by laying eggs on the beetle and then the larvae kill it. Would love an episode about that and how we can attract/protect that insect so we can get rid of the Japanese Beetle once and for all!

@juliehorney995 Год назад

Good topic for sure.

@BarbaraShafferIsagenix 3 месяца назад

My house and garage have suddenly been overtaken by lacewings... IDK what i did but i must be doing something right! Now get them out! 😂

@jettyeddie_m9130 Год назад

I see them flying around at night here in my food forest , they look like little fairies flying around 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️ P.s I loved cops remix song !! 😆🤣

@vanessaadams9145 Год назад

Being overrun by Queen Anne's Lace at my garden 3 years ago explains why I saw so many Ladybugs and Lacewings all the time over there lol

@shake_shells11 3 месяца назад

Your voice always reminds me of an auctioneer 😂😂

@zods1964 Год назад

Where do the lacewings lay their eggs?

@sherry2836 Год назад

Nice series but would be even better if you showed pictures of the actual insects.

@redbroadhead2907 Год назад

Where can you get these?

@virgo8223 Год назад

How can I get rid of carpenter ants in my attic , since I can't go up there to spray . what do you recommend , thanks . Love your videos.

@ireneney5657 Год назад

Where can you buy beneficial bugs??

@lauriedavis4045 Год назад

The company he named at the beginning of the vid. Also Arbico Organics--I'm sure there are others.

@ffs6158 Год назад

I had scale on my lemon tree last year. Its a creepy disgusting thing and like aphids, it has a relationship with ants. Took me a year to get rid of mostly just with physical removal and a lot of pruning, but so far the last 6 months it hasn't come back and the tree looks 10x better. Could you do a video on dill and the insects in it? I feel bad because I didn't know what ladybug larvae looked like and killed a bunch, I feel I'm not the only one, those things are gross looking.

@melindaroth5796 Год назад

NO SMOKE FROM CANADA LUKE? We had vine bores in a couple squash plants. He got tulle to cover all veg plants. We are praying 🙏 🤲

@MIgardener Год назад

Plenty of smoke. It's hazy almost every day.

@melindaroth5796 Год назад

@@MIgardener OH SO SORRY FOR YALL. I WILL KEEP PRAYING 🙏 🤲

@FlowerxLady Год назад

I’m so excited about these! I put praying mantis in by the hundreds! I see a few now. Hoping they didn’t all get eaten. Will a soapy water spray kill mantis and lacewings? Thank for this episode 🐞

@MyBirdHouseInTheCity Год назад

Is there a good bug that controls squash bugs?

@cherylrjohnson9172 Год назад

Where do we get these beneficial bugs?

@Batchat2352 Год назад

I doubt it can exterminate my spider mite issue from my strawberry bed. Im using my hose on jet, DE and insecticide spray with alcohol

@FlowerxLady Год назад

Does soapy spray kill beneficial bugs?

@timclark7507 Год назад

I wonder if they eat squash borers or carrot fly?

@lisakruger5289 Год назад

I'm sorry if you did these already and I missed it...but praying mantis and dragonflies are both bugs I would be interested in you covering.

@northsidedork_3043 Год назад

I need to control peach tree borer

@Laceylady111 Год назад

Just looked in your catalog and on your site and I don’t see lacewings being sold there. Are you going to be selling them anytime soon?

@lauriedavis4045 Год назад

They're a sponsor that he named near the beginning of the vid.

@susanhenley8240 Год назад

Hmmm,... wondering how to tell GL eggs from any other eggs on my plants.

@daniellebailey6802 Год назад

I have some that showed up naturally, but I noticed the other day I had one acting funky almost like it was stuck to a leaf and it had brown dots on it. Do you think a wasp got to it?

@FlowerxLady Год назад

Do they overwinter? For next year?

@lisaterlecki8466 Год назад

Do u have a link to the green lacewing products

@Judten1 Год назад

Will they rid my plants of cucumber beetles???

@annakuta8031 Год назад

i've just released mine, i hope they survived 🤣

@shanemandoh420 Год назад

I have the worst problem with cabbage worms this year. They are eating so much. Also the tiny brown grass hoppers.

@hostoftheemeraldcoast8123 11 месяцев назад

Will they control mealybugs?

@user-bl9wz4xi9b Год назад

Good bugs for garden

@edithpeters9542 Год назад

Would they live in Western Colorado?

@amitamodzelewski3425 Год назад

Is there a bug that feeds on Japanese beetles?

@nancyfitch9162 Год назад

Do they eat cucumber beetles, I have a ton this year?

@marksieber4626 Год назад

I haven’t seen any indication of larvae after 2 weeks. I have mine in the small boxes. Are mine duds?

@MIgardener Год назад

You won't see them. They are very small.

@marksieber4626 Год назад

Will they get after spotted lantern flys

@Nikki-mx5my Год назад

@@marksieber4626 Good question! Thankfully, I have no Spotted Lantern Flies in my garden, but there are a lot of them just three hours south of me. I dread what might come next year and hoping that there will be a predatory insect that can help take down the population.