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Mild winter will do what for bugs in 2012?

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OK, I know we didn't get a cold winter here in PA. Ditto for many other places.

Without the freeze, what's going to happen when all the bugs have an extended 2012 breeding season?

I saw a small group of gnats already and that was in February!??!?

I'm thinking it's going to be nasty. A potential saving grace may be that without the snow runoff, water holes for breeding may be low or dried up which could help for mosquitoes.

Anyone know where to buy some pet bats? Wouldn't mind getting a couple dozen if I could train them to hang around.
 
Bczoom... Just build some bat box's...we had bats that were hanging in the barn and s++ting on everything After we mounted a couple boxes on poles over by the garden...the barn was free of the mess...:shifty:
 
Thanks. I live in a deep valley so getting them to hang around is hard as we don't get desired temps.
I do have lumber so I'll build some and see what happens.
They do love the cedar siding ...
 
The outlook for agricultural bugs is that the mild winter will make them an issue this spring and summer, especially if there is a lack of rain, and low humidity. These are the conditions they do the best in. Wish we would have had a normal winter.....

Regards, Kirk
 
The ladybugs are out in force around here if we've had a mild winter, especially in the late summer/early autumn, I've noticed.
 
just vacuum 'em w/ a shop-vac. learned that from my Mom & Dad. shudder @ the pseudo-ladybugs.
 
Last year was bad enough for us for insects because of the drought conditions, skeeters were the only thing we had no problem with. :smile:

The flys,wasps,ants are allready bad here, and WTF ever those bugs are that hover in the millions in the pastures, so I can only imagine its going to get much worse. :doh:

The outlook for agricultural bugs is that the mild winter will make them an issue this spring and summer, especially if there is a lack of rain, and low humidity. These are the conditions they do the best in. Wish we would have had a normal winter.....

Regards, Kirk
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Question for you Kirk? Last year we were infested with them damn flying grass hoppers that normally stay out in the pastures, I am assuming because of the draught it forced them up closer to the house where we keep everything watered.:unsure:

They perty much stripped all of our new trees,shrubs and most everything in our gardens from the top down. Do you know of anything that will help control them that will not break the bank, or what they are even called. When we drive through the pasture they only fly a short distance, so I dont even know if they are classified as grasshoppers. Any advice would be appreciated. :wink:
 
Wish I had good news for you Cowboy....

In the nymph stage they are pretty easy to get with say Warrior or some other like product. It has a 30 day residule. Lorsban on the other hand is a boilogical thermonuclear explosion that is non selective and very effective. Gets the good bugs as well though.

By the time they are fling, they are winged adults, and are quite a bit harder to control. but in my mind Lorsband would get the nod. It's potent shit, may need a licence to purchase it. But it may be an uphill battle if your the only geen spot on the plains....

Best reagards, Kirk
 
Sure hope we don't end up with the stink bugs like last year. And aphids are an issue in the one greenhouse already.:hammer:
 
The skeeters were bigger than the robins last year and lots of them with all the rain. Compound that with all the bats dying off due to white nose syndrome and it could be another similar year, I expect.
 
300 H and H said:
Wish I had good news for you Cowboy....

In the nymph stage they are pretty easy to get with say Warrior or some other like product. It has a 30 day residule. Lorsban on the other hand is a boilogical thermonuclear explosion that is non selective and very effective. Gets the good bugs as well though.

By the time they are fling, they are winged adults, and are quite a bit harder to control. but in my mind Lorsband would get the nod. It's potent shit, may need a licence to purchase it. But it may be an uphill battle if your the only geen spot on the plains....

Best reagards, Kirk
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Thanks for the info Kirk, that gives me an idea I hadn't thought of. I'll check with the guy that dusts the surrounding propertys and see what he used last season, might be just as cheap and easy to have him dust ours at the same time. We were the only ones that seemed to have that problem last season and are surrounded by farmground on 3 sides and the river at the rear of the property. :unsure:
 
Although I only sprayed for bugs last year, I generally mix up 500 gallons of 2-4-D with malathion and a good surfactant and spray the ten acres or so immediately around my house and it takes care of bugs and weeds in my lawn. We can generally be pretty well bug free if I do that a couple times a year. We had my high school class reunion at my place last year and I sprayed about a week before (you can smell it for about 3-5 days) and several people commented "Hey, no bugs!". :smile:
 
muleman said:
Sure hope we don't end up with the stink bugs like last year.
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I'll take the stink bugs over those POS lady bug thingy's.

I know it's about 4 years off for our area, but check the cicada cycle for your area. When they're out, there's not another bug that will bother you that year as your mind will be solely on the cicadas.
 
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