We've all had our bouts with unwanted, ravinous critters' n bugs of all sorts.
Share your methods of control for whichever bug or critter you've conquered.
One year my area was infested with the African Army Worm......known to us as 'Legionnaire'......a nd not a native to these parts at all. The farmers were plowing over their fields, most not insured and these black worms really mean business in a cereal crop!! Wiping out whole fields in a matter of days..
What to use?? Had no idea!! I found refuge with Bone Meal sprinkled heavily around the base of the plant and a paste made from cayenne pepper.
Netting would of probably been a good night time solution for the moths but the 'Trees' were way too tall. I wouldn't normally use boiled rhubarb leaves but that time I had no choice to find a pesticide that I knew killed bugs and didn't burn the leaf.
I used the edible variety of rhubarb leaves boiled on the B.B.Q. for 1/2 hour, let sit until cool and strain the solution, then add 1 tsp. of
yellow sunlight dish soap for every gallon of juice.
I lightly sprayed the plants
at night by flashlight.......mor e so when the fields were very dry and hadn't rained in a while.
I found myself battling
the worm by day and their moth by night!!
