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Saturday Gardening Thread: Bugs [Y-not and WeirdDave]Greetings Gardeners! Welcome to your Saturday gardening thread. Today's thread is brought to you by the RHINOCEROS BEETLE: I have no idea why I decided to post that video... lol! Earlier this week a friend and I went to the Red Butte Gardens at the University of Utah's campus. It was a gorgeous day and while we were there I spotted this guy buzzing around some Syrian oregano flowers: I'd never seen anything quite like this wasp before, so I snapped a bunch of pictures and when I got home discovered that he was most likely a Great Golden Digger Wasp, which is a beneficial insect. (So is the rhinoceros beetle and its relatives, by the way.) 'Seemed like a good topic for the gardening thread so here we go! GREAT GOLDEN DIGGER WASP Cognitive scientists are interested in studying these insects because of their genetically-programmed behavior: Upon capturing a suitable prey, the female Great Golden will paralyze it with toxins in her sting. If the prey is small, she flies it directly to the nest. If prey is too large to transport aerially, the wasp will walk with it across the ground. The prey is clasped beneath her body by grasping its antennas with her mandibles. **Hmmm, reminds me of the RNC. LADY BUG (officially called a "Lady Beetle") Lady Beetles belong to the family Coccinelladae and their good reputation is well-earned. Most of the 450 native and introduced North American species are voracious predators of destructive plant-eating insects such as aphids and scales. In fact, their habitat is determined by what they eat. If you want to attract lady bugs to your garden, there are some plants that you can keep that the little gals like, including marigold, sweet alyssum, and yarrow. Although lady bugs are best-known as aphid-eaters, it turns out that the adults must eat some pollen in order to be able to reproduce.
PRAYING MANTIS Mature adults usually live from spring to fall at which time they mate. Within a few weeks after copulation, a female praying mantis usually die. The male literally loses his head during the mating process for the female simply bites it off and eats it. While this behavior is routinely observed in the laboratory, researchers think it is much rarer in the wild. Maybe these cannibalistic actions help explain why mantids are territorial loners. Yikes!
In addition, there are commercial sources for beneficial insects and many botanic gardens hold classes on how to integrate them into your gardening plan. What are your favorite garden "bugs?"
Seems to me that this is definitely "for the love of gardening". This seems like an awful lot of work for something that sells for a dollar a pound at Giant. Part 2: Maybe carrots aren't your thing. Perhaps you'd prefer onions. I managed to fail at growing onions this year, it doesn't help that the video starts by saying its almost impossible to not grow onions. It's probably because I failed to water my tiller (3:36). Potatoes? Ahh, screw it, I'm not having luck with any of this stuff. Next year I'm going to plant rabbits. Y-not: Thanks for those videos, WeirdDave! To close things up, how about a survey? I'd like to know what you'd like to see happen with the gardening thread during the winter months:
As always, send suggestions, complaints, pictures, questions, and kegs of beer to me on Twitter at MoxieMom or to my gee ma il account, bailesworth.
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