Simple Garden Pest Solutions | Beetles, Worms & Bugs
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Hey everyone, it’s Rachel from That 1870s Homestead! Today, I’m tackling a pressing issue in my garden-pests! Join me as I discover potato beetles munching on my potato plants and show you my simple, yet effective method for removing them using a jar of soapy water. As we walk through the garden, I’ll share my top tips for regular garden inspections and how crucial they are for catching problems early on. I’ll also demonstrate a preventive trick to protect my squash plants from vine borers using athletic tape and explain how to identify and manage squash bugs, which often resemble tiny stink bugs. Whether you’re dealing with similar pests or different ones like cucumber beetles or tomato worms, this video is packed with practical advice for keeping your garden healthy. Don’t forget to share your own pest control tips in the comments; we can all learn from each other’s experiences. Happy gardening!
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Rachel, my hubby had the best idea and it worked for us. He took the generator and shop vac out to the garden. We put soapy water in the wet vac. He sucked all those bugs off and it was easy peasy! Just wanted to share.
My husband got a portable shop vac that uses a ryobi battery and does the same thing
Good to know
We always put food grade Diacotomas Earth down after watering. We then put a thick perimeter around the plants. Always lightly sprinkle each plant, especially after each rain. Works great on ants, pill bugs, slugs, cabbage moths, aphids, jade beetles, potato bugs, fleas, ticks, chigars, and much more😀
@@qismyfavoriteuncle9856 does it hurt the earthworms though? Like when the water washes it down into the dirt?
Diatomaceous Earth did not work on my pill bugs. I could even tell the ones that had walked through it and were still going strong days later 🙁
@@LittleBitOfSunshine4uit apparently does not. I wouldn’t have thought of that and your question encouraged me to look it up.
Planting calendula within potatoes helps with potatobeatle. They wont smell the potatoes, if the calendula is cca two feets away. It amount needed depends on the sizeof potato patch. Wont hekp if the beetle is already there, but for next year.
I am having the WORST year for pests, some I have never, ever had before. And all my usual remedies seems to be not even coming close to wiping them out. It has been a daily struggle, plants dying, stunted, or no fruit at all. I have finally decided to stop fighting and continue moderate attention and harvest whatever comes in. Then in mid-July I am going to pull everything out and replant some of the things I have lost. It doesn't get pretty cold here until closer to the end of October. I'm on a gardening facebook page for my state and everyone is having the same issues. And I have seen a ton of homesteaders videos that I follow that are like you- experienced- and are having the most tremendous invasions of pests they have never had. It's ironic that the web says onions are a natural deterrent to potato beetles, and there they are- hanging out with the onions.
Same here! Leaf-footed bugs were a new one for me. Ugly little suckers!
I have been battling slugs this year more than ever before. I tried handpicking and have gotten over 700 in 4 days. Yes, I counted them.
Try beer traps, it works. C I use the cheapest beer I can find into a custard cup.
My sister asked what I was doing when she called the other day and I told her I just went on a slug swishing rampage around the garden. She thought it was funny.
@@auntdello5286me to! And they don’t like to climb over coffee grounds and egg shells that I sprinkle over my hostas!
Hey Rachel. I am in the south. We get horn worms on our tomatoes. Big fat green worms and they stripe the leaves. I do pick them and squash them but it’s better to put them in soapy water. I use a black light at night to find them because they glow. The birds love them.
I did take tape out a couple times this yr. But i havent done a very good job due to the humidity & heat in general. I've really been suffering with back issue, i got an epidural last month but my back is so bad that it hurtswhen i work in the garden too long due to position & i learned too this yr I that I need to rise earlier than 9am or 10am. Next yr i'll be getting up 5am or 6am to get in the garden before the heat. Goes to show even at 64, you'll still learn things about garden, and that can be applied to anything in life. Love ya Rachel, thanks so much for being such an awsome educater in th garden & kitchen! ❤❤❤
Thank you for the advice on this pest. I didn’t have potato beetles but I did have tons of roly-poly‘s. I have also been finding caterpillars on my parsley plants. They completely decimated 2 plants. I had started pulling them off and tossing them out in the yard until I found out they were swallowtail butterfly caterpillars and I decided to let them have all they wanted just to bring butterflies back to my yard. The agricultural land sold behind my house and the new owner mowed down all the wild plants and now we don’t have bees or butterflies around here. Hopefully I can do my part and bring back some of the pollinators.
Holy cow the pests are insane! We have an infestation of Japanese beetles! I’ve picked them off in the morning , throw them in soapy water then covered my trees in mesh sacks. Never had them this bad so I feel you Rachael. I hope you can get a handle on your bugs this year. 🙏🏼
The slugs and earwigs this year are insane. My area of WI was in a bad drought even a month ago now its wet wet wet. And of course welcome the cucumber beetles and squash beetles, just waiting on the borers.
I am in wisconsin as well .. and yes the earwigs are awful. What are you doing to get rid of them? I tried the soy sauce and oil …. But no luck.
For the underneath of the leaves... take a ducktape and rub against the leaves. Works great!:)
What I did to take care of my potatoe beetles is I take a mesh strainer and put flour in it and lightly dust the top of my potatoes leaves..when the beetles start eating the plants they can only eat a very small amount and it kills them right away because they cannot digest flour and it kills them..works every time! I just use it when I see beetles..and if it rains just re-apply the next day ;)
Does this work with any type of beetle? I have Japanese beetles eating all of my roses and dahlias! A lot of buds even before they bloom! I can’t keep up with them! 😑
Does that work for grasshoppers?
@@renz8563I think I’m going to try it and see. Jap beetles are my nemesis in the garden. They devour my green bean trellis and I’ve tried everything but chemicals.
Pure Pyrethrin is organic and will get rid of potato beetles, cucumber beetles, etc. It is what I use because I’m disabled and can’t pick off beetles by hand.
I'm in sothern lower michigan and this year in my back garden I have a ton of slugs and earrings also. Also fighting the cabbage worms. Every year we have a ton of Japanese beetles and now asiatic beetles. I use the soap and water method on the beetles. The cabbage worms I have been picking them off and squishing them. I will definately try the diatomaceous earth.
Pacific Northwest -
Flea Beetle - Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth,
Slugs - Cheap Beer Baths,
Aphids - Neem Oil
White moths - row covers, inspection and manual removal
Rabbits - Fake Snakes
Moles - Manual traps
Birds - strawberries - painted rocks (placed prior to ripe strawberries), Blueberries - covers
Take hot pepper, garlic & water about one gallon altogether and let it set over night.The next day strain off the pepper and garlic then take and put in a spray bottle with some just a Little squirt of dish liquid and spray on your plants.The dish liquid help it stick to the plants!
Japanese Beetles, I used a portable vacuum cleaner to vacuum them. When I tried to pick them off they fly away…so vacuum worked best
I brought 4 jars out yesterday, DAMN CUCMBER BEETLES.
Carrot root maggots? Yep... always something wants our veg just as much as we do! Mesh cover helps but... we always have to stay vigilant anyway. Blessings Kiddo!🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕
Love the caption photo! 😂❤
My grape vines have had a lot of ants on them. I mix cosmetic grade all natural white kaolin clay powder with water in a spray bottle and spray the grape leaves with it. The clay dries out the insect exoskeleton. I also spray my bean leaves with it when it looks like something is chomping on them and as a preventative I sprayed the base of my squash and cucumber plants. So far I haven’t had any signs of vine borers or squash bugs on any of my plants. Though the growing season is young, hopefully it will continue to work.
Where do u get the clay powder?
Japanese beetles are eating my basil. I picked them off into soapy water. But, they also attack shrubs such as buckthorn. Way too many to hand pick. I used milky spore last spring but I guess it hasn’t quite done the trick. I guess I need to pray with something. Neem oil?
Love your dress Rachel. Where can I find one?
I recently moved to Wisconsin and found my first potato beetles on my tomatillo plants. Thank you for this video. 😊
I actually use need, just putting a splash in jar of wate, leave right in the bed, and then spray the plant, We've had alot of rain, but I'm thinking putting DE ON THEM too seems to be helping some
Hi. You have to look under the leaves and squish the orange baby eggs.🤢
I wear one glove🤣
squash bugs and earwigs are horrible here in idaho. we lost all of our squash and corn last year. praying i can figure out how to deal with them better. last year i put water down sourdough starter or beer near the corn/ green beans and that got a lot but not enough of them.
I start "collecting" Colorado potato beetle adults (hard shell) as soon as the plants are emerging from the ground. Then I walk through the rows and check each plant from the top down to the ground and under the leaves (for eggs). I squash the eggs with my fingers and I just use an old water bottle to put all the bugs in. I keep collecting the larval stage insects as well as squash any of the tiny larval ones I can.
Same here. But when checking the plants for adult beetles every day and sometimes 3 times a day, I look for the very new larva in the youngest tender leaves. If you get them when they are newly hatched and very tiny, dusting with diatomaceous works great.
My worst pests are bunnies, I have been known to go full Mrs MacGregor on them! squash vine borer, The beetles look like Darth Maul. I also get the cucumber beatle, and shield beetles(stink beetles) Year before last I gave up on the organic route. I now use Captain Jacks Dead Bug every 2 weeks. I apply it when there is no rain for a couple days. I try to only apply it low on the plants, towards the dirt. That is where most beetles sleep. I can nearly keep up with the squash bugs early in the morning. I can catch them maiting and flick the pair into my soap container.
I'm in Michigan also and a week ago I found the same potato bug as you it started on one plant I caught them quick put them in the soapy water and then sprinkled a little diatomaceous earth took care of them
Earwigs! Tried everything but physically squashing them works. Moths and their eggs and larvae. Dawn soap combo works.
I found bettle grubs in my soil when i was planting more tomatoes 🍅. I ended up giving a handful to my chickens. Uau treat! Also squash bugs 🐛 icky, those give me heebie jeebies i have to wear glove to grab those. 😮 i also found lots of potato bugs and surrounded my squash with diatomaceous earth. Need to do another round now thaT we had a hard rain 🌧
Rachel - check under the landscape fabric for eggs. Ive been reading about landscape fabric for gardening and while it has its perks as a weed barrier, there have been lots of reports of pests using it as a home / overwintering better in your soil because it makes it warmer and that, over time (and the amount of time I dont recall right now), plastic pieces from the landscape fabric will leech into the soil and make the whole organic produce thing really not worth it anymore.
Fall army worms have been showing up across michigan, I have potato beetles as well and I usually get cabbage moths
Tomato horn worm is the worst pest as well as white fly so far in Phoenix, Arizona. I had tomato horn worms bad this year. I pick them off and the birds get them.
Tomato worms. Just picked 6 off. They were not there yesterday! Also Japanese Beetles on my okra. Pick them off and into soap water.
Tomato horn worms. I will use a black light at night to get them. The light makes them glow. During the day they just blend in.
We use Spinosad organic insect spray on potatoes it will kill the potato beetles. Also, try wood ashes at the base of squash plants for squash bugs and remove any mulch they hide under it.
Ticks and Japanese beetles . I broke down and sprayed for ticks, due to being bit from head to toe! I couldn't even pick strawberries without them crawling up my arm. I tried deep woods off and cutter to no avail. The essential oils didn't work.
Japanese beetles are eating the raspberry and green bean plants. I knock them in water. I think the armadillos took care of most of their larva this year. Otherwise I'd be using 7.
If my potatoes look mature, start to flower but a plant or 2 looks like they're dieing, I'll dig them up. Last year I waited and write worms destroyed most of them... This year no damage. They and rollypolly bugs got allot of my strawberries this year.
I have the most trouble with squash bugs. I haven't found anything yet that works against them! I'm in southeast Oklahoma. I heard to plant radish with the squash seed, but that didn't work for me.
Omg was that infestation in just one or two days? Wow those are gross. I live in California and gardening for a few years and never have seen potato bugs. Good work
On the squash plants what about the parts that are resting on the ground won’t the bugs go there?
Florida panhandle and every year we get pickle worms in our squash, zucchini, and sometimes cucumbers. Can’t pick them off because they’re inside eating the squash. Ugh!
Oh awful
TOMATO HORN WORMS ARE COMMON IN FLORIDA I FIGHT FUNGAL DISEASES MORE THAN ANYTHING I JUST HAD TO PULL MY TOMATOES DUE TO BLIGHT.
What do you do to keep the pests off of you? Like mosquitoes, chiggers and ticks?
The cucumbers. Beetles are so small that's what makes me crazy, they fly right before I go to grab them
something is eating the flowers on my potato plants which is making the plants starting to die, bit I cannot find a bug at all, I have groundhogs eating my green beans but I do not think they eat any nightshade plants, I'm totally confused on what it is.
here in southeast tn I'm dealing with stink bugs on my tomato plants ick
Potato bugs do not bother me. But tomato hornaworms literally make me gag. The kids always laughed at me because I could see them (when they couldn't) but I couldn't bear to touch them.
I am overrun with the Colorado Potato beetle(yellowish with black stripes) and the beetle's orange and black stripe larva.. ugh!!! First year with this kind of infestation... I thought it was just me...
Oh gosh we have terrible slugs! And cabbage worms! But luckily my cabbage was big enough I just picked it. The slugs I just got out at dusk and pick em off. I am so worried about my melons bc they are hard to grow so hopefully the slugs don’t get to them 🤞
Thanks for the great advice to keeping our garden healthy and free of pest's.🐛🪲 Your garden looks so good, and I love your beautiful flowers! 🥀🌼
Put your mix in a sprayer and spray the whoke crop. You will never get them all.😮
Think putting tree tee oil with water in spray bottle would work?
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In Virginia the tomato hornworm will eat your tomato plants in a day yuck. Plant basil next to your tomato plants
Well I'm having issues with June beetles getting on my corn silks . I tried insecticidal soap an it works . It stops them asap an a few minutes later their dead . I even came out the next day an found dead ones I havnt even sprayed directly . I'm worried to much will hurt my corn though. Does anybody know if the soap will hurt the corn ? It's to easy to just spray without touching them. Thank you😊
What do you do with amaranth? Is it edible or is it a sort of pollinator plant?
It's an edible grain but I'm just growing it for beauty in my cut flowers
I don’t think the landscape fabric leeches. I have been using it for 5 yrs now & haven’t noticed and difference in the bug infestation. I pull up my fabric every fall & put a cover crop on my garden. I also put a ton of powdered egg shells on the soil in the spring before I reapply the fabric. My biggest problem
Is the darn squash bugs. But I don’t think they r any worse now then before I started using the fabric. But if u just leave the fabric down and never take care of the soil I would think it would become a bug hiding place.
Love your green blouse😊! Sorry dress😅😂
HORNWORMS on tomatoes... yes!! It's really, really bad.
Vine borers are the worst. Not much you can do. This year army worms wiped out my first plantings. All I could do was squish the worms and replant. ( Louisiana)
Those fat squishy ones are the pupae. The adult is a hard shelled beetle.
tricot gamma wasps from nature's good guys
Earwigs have been a nightmare. Diatomaceous Earth and soy sauce and oil traps.
Squash bugs!!!! They are horrible! I have a hand held tint vacuum I suck them off with and I dislodge the eggs off of the leaves. Also tato and tobacco horn worms in the tomatoes. I had those invade this year. They are easy to spot with a black light flashlight at night. Works great! They will eat a whole tomato in one night!
Tomato horn worms
Squash bugs tomatoes horn worms potatoes bugs and other bugs I'm sure
I squish the squash bugs and check each leaf for eggs. I also started trellising the plants off the ground, this includes all the various squash: zucchini, Acorn, Hubbard etc, and pumpkins off the ground. I make supports for any of the fruit that it such as pumpkins and stuff so they have a sling so they're protected and I can look at every leaf and then I cut the lower leaves off so I don't have to check those that are close to the ground but I can see the main stems.
I just wanna say I absolutely love your thumbnail 😂. That’s such a real expression that I’m certain majority of us can relate to! ❤
Right 😂
I am in the mountains of NC and have dealt with my potato beetles by paying grandson to collect them in soapy water. He ERADICATED all of them within a week!!
We deal with squash vine borer and last year I injected liquid BT into the hollow stems of the squash plants. Idk if it was luck or not, but we harvested tons of squash!
This is the first year we did this too - and this is also the first year in about 12 that we have gotten more than one zucchini before the beautiful plants died - today I went out to smash eggs on the zukes
Earwigs!!! I’ve never seen so many like I have this year.
Same here in northern Utah
What do you do to get rid of them?
Use a shallow dish and add some cooking oil and a splash of soy sauce...they love it
I've heard olive oil in a small bowl will attract them
@@LinV04I've heard olive oil in a small bowl
I also check under the leaves of potato plants…potato beetles eggs are orange. Squish those before they hatch out. I put pots of catnip near the potatoes to confuse the bugs.
Snails have been terrible here in Vt. They were even on onions and garlic and they’re usually not bothered by much here. Ya, they crunch when you squish them…ugh!
The squash vine borer moth is a red moth with black spots. They lay their eggs all over the plant. If the egg at the top of the stalk hatches, the larvae will bore into that stalk and makes it’s way down through the hollow section of the stalk down to the solid stem and then start feasting on it. That’s why wrapping the stem is only marginally helpful.
Beatles on my pole beans. I used Neem oil, and it did the trick.
Horn worms are the pest down south. I go out in the evening with a black light I got on Amazon and hunt them on my tomato plants. They glow when the black light shines on them. Makes great treats for my chickens!
The moth that lays the vine borer is called a Melittia Cucurbitae. It is a red and black moth
Looks like Darth Maul
Our vine borer moth is white with a black dot
I'm retired, and I swear I work more and do more now. I try to have time to work on my quilting hobby. But at least I keep myself busy. Squash bugs come out of nowhere. Hornworns on tomatoes. Pick the worms off, they feel real strange, look pretty except their heads. ❤😂
Here in the south we have ALL the bugs! I was just lamenting to hubby that I'm sick of the garden fight. Vine borers are the worst for me! Even my tromboncino plant is suffering from them! The hornworms won't even have a chance at my tomatoes this year bc the squirrels are hauling them off by the load! It is good to finally see real gardening on RUclips. Far too often all you see is perfection and when you're in the garden w@r with bugs it is comforting (somewhat) to know others are also in battle. Your garden is always beautiful!!!
Kelly you hit the nail on the head!! In NC I've never seen it this bad. Gardens aren't perfect no matter who we are.
@@amysmith3967I’m in NC too and holy moly the pests this year have made me want to give up gardening. I work full time so finding a good time to walk through is a chore in itself and it’s so hot you can’t stand to be outside 😢
Grasshoppers! I just put DE on my potatoes, basil, Okra, and eggplant. I don't love to use it but I am desperate!
My worst pest is the squash bug. I didn’t grow squash last year because of them. I haven’t planted my squash yet this year, I have heard it helps to plant them later in the year.
Oh my, we have a problem with Japanese beetles, we've tried the soapy water, but we had way too many, so this year we are trying the neem oil and we are hoping it works. I've also tried planting flowers and plants that they say will deter them, I'm not sure if that's working.
I thought it was just my garden but later I found out it was greater parts of my area experiencing the same thing, which is thousands of gnats or leaf hoppers. I don't know which. But I set up yellow sticky trap paper clipped to long bamboo poles and stuck the poles in a pot positioned under flood lights. The yellow traps hovered directly in front of the lights, from right after dusk until dawn with the lights on. I set my alarm to take it down so as not attract garden pests I didn't want to catch. I did this for about two weeks and the papers continued to be covered with the pests in the morning. I stopped when ladybugs arrived in my garden and unfortunately caught about 10 of them as well. That seemed to address the "infestation". Besides that experience, early on, there doesn't seem to be any more than normal amount of other pests and actually much less aphids - knock on wood.
You need to check for the adult hard shell beetle and under the leaves for the egg clusters(yellow or orange) kill these by squashing. You have the hatched out form.
I VACUUM THEM OFF...!
SoCal here. Rabbits and gophers are absolute terrors and they can only be stopped through deadly force, I swear. It has become a nightly routine to go to battle with them
I battle them too. The rabbit problem was solved with tanks I use as gardens. They don't seem to jump up in them....yet. I just found a gopher hill in a garden I haven't had them in before. Ugh I am not happy.
I'm in a community garden in socal. I use Uncle Ian's deer and gopher repellent. It is a blood meal and pepper mixture. Sprinkle it in a gopher whole and the surrounding soil and they go away. I have also sprinkled it on young bean plants to keep rabbits from eating them. You have to reapply after watering and be careful opening the bag or you'll get pepper sprayed.
@@lizardsjc5317Thank you! I’ll definitely try that! Rabbits carried off one of my pepper plants the other night so if that stuff works for me then my garden life will change thoroughly!
@@lizardsjc5317 thank you! I’m in southern Arizona but I’ll try anything at this point.
Always with the aphids on my cabbages and apparently we gave ourselves a pill bug infestation last summer when we barked all our garden paths. It took many hours of work and six trailers to the dump to get rid of all the bark but it was worth it.
Very informative video. I hope my potatoe plants aren't jinxed. But if they are know I know how to handle it. Thank you
Pennsylvania gal here. Cucumber beetles have been awful for me. I have replanted my cucumbers 3x’s. I just hit my cucumbers that are just getting true leaves with diatomaceous earth tonight. The cucumber beetles were flying away like mad. Hope they stay away!
My biggest pest is the sun in south Florida.
Army worms are TERRIBLE down here this year. We’re in Louisiana. Everyone I’ve spoken to in the area is having major problems with them this year. I’ve never dealt with them before, but was told planting basil with your tomatoes will help fend them off. Will definitely be doing that next year.
I have basil and borage in a carpet under my tomatoes and it might be helping, but I have still been invaded by army worms, horn worms, mexican beetles, japanese beetles and white flies. I'm in AL, and so many in my state are having the same issues. It's been crazy like I've never had such problems before. AND.. none of the usual remedies are helping at all. It's like superman pests. I'm have mostly given up already at this point.
@@ima40schic yes, the pests overall have been worse than I’ve ever seen them. Neem oil is our usual method of pest control and it hasn’t seemed to do a thing. Last year we had the horrible drought, this year the bugs 🙄
I'm sorry, you don't have hornworms? You think you're cool around bugs, until you come up on a hornworm the size of your thumb when you think you're brushing aside a vine. The neighbors are used to the screaming by now.
We've had them many times just thankfully not yet this year
Slugs have been a menace this year. I have resorted to sluggo. Our potato beetles look different but do the same damage. Ours are cream colored with black stripes. I read somewhere that beans around your potatoes protects them. Doing an experiment this year to see if it works.
Hi Rachel. I just posted a Costco new arrivals video and they have Le Parfait jars right now! Made me think of you. 😊❤
Diatomaceous earth contains no toxic poisons and works on contact. Dust lightly and evenly over vegetable crops wherever these potato bugs are found.
They can over winter in your soil . First 4-10 inches.
Does this work for other crops / pests? I have a Japanese beetle problem that killed my Raspberries 2 years in a row and now they won't produce at all. And now I have something in my strawberries (not sure what yet)
@ashleyashcraft1754 yes It does work for them. I just googled it.
@ashleyashcraft1754 yes but you want Food Grade Diatomaceous earth only
@@ashleyashcraft1754 Pill bugs love strawberries. They hate the sun so only eat at night. Core out half an apple or potato and lay it cut side down in your strawberry bed. Turn it right side up the next morning and you’ll know if you have pill bugs.
Slugs, white flies, cute EVIL cabbage moths , and whitish grey aphids grrrr. Powder mildew
If you flip the potato leaves over, you'll find the orange eggs on the bottom side. Any of those you should squish and that will help control them significantly 😊
I did start planting flowers in my garden this yr. Love how pretty! Fortunatly, i didn't have potato beetles, this yr, it's been like an investation of cucmber & squash bugs, also on raspberries, it's been Japanese, i have a jar in my freezer
So when i go picking berries, i grab my jar, all the bugs go in there, then back in the freezer, chickens will love them this winter.
The cucumber beetles aren't so easy to catch though,they are so small & fast to fly. They have done their share of damage. I have been purchasing all kinds of things for next yr, i haven't used any as I've planted all unusal squash's, not sure what happened this spring but no zucchini, n̈o grn pepper, no jalapeños, no red tomatoes. I planted 6 cherry tomatoe's different, was thinking??? Also only 1 past tomatoe & not a roma, not sure what king it is. I still have 6 gal bags of tomatoes From last yr & my daughter has a bunch in her freezer so we'll be teaming up soon to make some tomatoe sauces, then we'll just split what we get.
I have an aversion to bugs. I will have to have a full hazmat suit to deal with that!!!
Gardening will cure you of that fear! 😂