Outdoor pest rant thread

[PioneerValleyOG]

@Wizzlez

they come in from the woods out back through mice mostly

Hey bud, as a hunter, me.and crew deal with this a lot, spending much time in woods. Ticks mostly wait for movement and drop from trees, believe it or not. And all the old timers,.many I know won’t even go into the woods without pyrethrin. They swear by it. I’m a believer.

[cannabissequoia]

@Wizzlez

So I just sprinkled our version of sluggo, same stuff in it, around my plants, only to think “hey maybe I should research this “safe for pets and plants” stuff” and what do you know, I find out it’s not safe at all and increases the amount of heavy metals the plants will take up from the soil

oh and it also kills earthworms. The active ingredient isn’t actually iron phosphate, it’s EDTA which frees enough iron from the phosphate to cause iron poisoning, and EDTA is actually more poisonous than the metaldehyde slug pellets. They don’t list EDTA though because they report it to be an inert ingredient so they don’t need to list it.

Studies done with the active ingredients showed that slugs and snails could live off a diet of it indefinitely. Though with EDTA in it, well, the first dogs that ingested it are history.

To make matters worse, despite it’s label saying it’s allowed in organic produce crops, it’s a persistant pollutant.

Thanks for pointing this out

Now I need to look at the Sluggo label.

[willie]

Permetherin SFR for the ticks> I spray in spring twice, about 10 days apart. Rarely see a tick after that and this place is full of them.

[yardgrazer]

Thought I’d share a few photos I took over the last week or so… been noticing the eggs or whatever they are in the first photo on a few plants (I usually just rip off that portion of the leaf and remove it from the area). Second one… blech.

I’m kinda itching (no pun intended) to spray but I’ve been seeing wasps and lady beetles on my plants and I’d rather not kill them.