where were we? ah, yes…the et al

whiteflies! scale! spidermites! mosquitoes! slugs revisited!
whiteflies are tiny, tiny flies that lay their eggs on the undersides of leaves. you can identify the pests as whiteflies (as opposed to scale, a relative) by yellow, stunted plant growth (similar to the damage caused by aphids, another relative) and by the flurry of activity like that of [...]

aphids!

red, black, green, white, pink, brown…yup, those are aphids. though they look like tiny grasshoppers, aphids mass together in numbers to enjoy a life of sucking the life out of garden plants and making baby aphids as fast as they can. they cannot fly, but can be carried on the wind for great distances. some [...]

ladies and gentlemen, the beetles…

top three garden enemies: poison ivy, cigarette butts, and japanese beetles.
today, we conquer how to conquer japanese beetles.
as for the other two–i can discuss poison ivy eradication in a future post. but, as for those nasty butts…somehow it’s socially UNacceptable to spray horticultural oil on smokers? go figure.
so, japanese beetles. they eat, they hump, they [...]