In the video I talk about how useful nets are for controlling cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae). I have a whole video on that subject here: ruclips.net/video/bROjuQt1rvg/видео.html
Another great informative video Denis. Compulsory viewing for all gardeners. It amazes me why your videos aren't seen by more people. Sadly people reach for the bug killer and quick fix rather than observing and letting our beneficials do all the work for us. Keep up the good work
Thank you for this video Paul. I have been working in nurseries since 1985 and it is heartening to see more places starting to use ipm instead of just blanket spraying everything.
Had an earwig invasion the other year on the balcony of all places, the second type you refer to as European. What made them appear in such a large number compared to previous years was that I started planting sunflowers. You could see them crawling up the walls from below which I thought was insane that they could even notice the sunflowers that high up from the ground in the first place. Anyways they weren't that interested in other bugs as there weren't that many of them around at night but what they did was eat the sunflowers. I captured a lot of them to study them and because of that I lost my fear of the completely. I used to be terrified of them! They're completely harmless and their pincers very a lot between each other some of them had really crooked ones that didn't align properly. The males(I assume) would often fight each other using the pincer they never seemed to harm each other though.
Awesome presentation. key topics everyone should learn a little bit of. Love the use of your own photos and experience alongside the more academic knowledge. Diversity may be the name of the game... this will be my 3rd season planting things, one bed, then a couple more, for this year I removed half the grass on the front yard lol, guessing I will end up giving away the mower if this inner bug continues.
Thanks so much for this! Great presentation and it gives me so many good ideas on how to approach the garden that is in a harmonious way for how I'm attempting to garden. I've gone from a bare block with no topsoil to no bare soil, lots of habitat planting, no bare dirt, giant compost bays etc. over the past five years. I'm delighted to see how many insects and spiders etc. are returning that I'd never seen in my years here previously! How should we be working to attract the Australian Earwigs over the European ones? And how can we help limit the European ones without harming or discouraging the Australian Earwigs? I've had a MASSIVE boom in European earwigs this year from both habitat and I guess perhaps the weather being particularly favourable for them this year but so far not really seeing many Aussie ones. Will definitely order the books!
Thanks for the great comment! To limit the European earwigs you need to find their breeding and sheltering sites - usually under leaf litter, pots, piles of timber etc. You can also trap them in shallow containers filled with cooking oil - they are attracted to the oil and drown in it. Or you can try an overturned pot stuffed with newspaper - they will hide there overnight. The predatory earwigs will come into the garden if there are invertebrates for them to feed on. It is a bit of a learning curve. Good luck!
In the video I talk about how useful nets are for controlling cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae). I have a whole video on that subject here: ruclips.net/video/bROjuQt1rvg/видео.html
that video may be the reason I didn't give up gardening, thanks for that
Another great informative video Denis. Compulsory viewing for all gardeners. It amazes me why your videos aren't seen by more people.
Sadly people reach for the bug killer and quick fix rather than observing and letting our beneficials do all the work for us.
Keep up the good work
Thanks so much Steve! Always great to get such positive feedback.🙂
Very interesting! 👍
Thank you for this video Paul. I have been working in nurseries since 1985 and it is heartening to see more places starting to use ipm instead of just blanket spraying everything.
Thanks very much Dean. Great to (virtually) meet a fellow IPM devotee. Cheers. Denis 😉
Had an earwig invasion the other year on the balcony of all places, the second type you refer to as European. What made them appear in such a large number compared to previous years was that I started planting sunflowers. You could see them crawling up the walls from below which I thought was insane that they could even notice the sunflowers that high up from the ground in the first place. Anyways they weren't that interested in other bugs as there weren't that many of them around at night but what they did was eat the sunflowers. I captured a lot of them to study them and because of that I lost my fear of the completely. I used to be terrified of them! They're completely harmless and their pincers very a lot between each other some of them had really crooked ones that didn't align properly. The males(I assume) would often fight each other using the pincer they never seemed to harm each other though.
Thanks for your very interesting comment! I'm so glad that you found they were harmless. 🙂
Awesome presentation. key topics everyone should learn a little bit of. Love the use of your own photos and experience alongside the more academic knowledge. Diversity may be the name of the game... this will be my 3rd season planting things, one bed, then a couple more, for this year I removed half the grass on the front yard lol, guessing I will end up giving away the mower if this inner bug continues.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you got something out of it. Good luck with the gardening bug. There is no way back now! 😀
Thanks so much for this! Great presentation and it gives me so many good ideas on how to approach the garden that is in a harmonious way for how I'm attempting to garden. I've gone from a bare block with no topsoil to no bare soil, lots of habitat planting, no bare dirt, giant compost bays etc. over the past five years. I'm delighted to see how many insects and spiders etc. are returning that I'd never seen in my years here previously! How should we be working to attract the Australian Earwigs over the European ones? And how can we help limit the European ones without harming or discouraging the Australian Earwigs? I've had a MASSIVE boom in European earwigs this year from both habitat and I guess perhaps the weather being particularly favourable for them this year but so far not really seeing many Aussie ones. Will definitely order the books!
Thanks for the great comment! To limit the European earwigs you need to find their breeding and sheltering sites - usually under leaf litter, pots, piles of timber etc. You can also trap them in shallow containers filled with cooking oil - they are attracted to the oil and drown in it. Or you can try an overturned pot stuffed with newspaper - they will hide there overnight. The predatory earwigs will come into the garden if there are invertebrates for them to feed on. It is a bit of a learning curve. Good luck!
Good advice
Thanks!