For ducks sake, I planted a nice herb and essential oil garden in my backyard. Near a large butterfly bush, bad move....
This Lil fucker and his family decided to trade their butterfly bush bungalows for my high-end herb garden condos...

I swear these things are taunting me, I go after them with a clear micro jar so I can bring it to a garden specialist, it runs away hides under a leaf then pokes just it's head out to stare at me. I go after it it hides then pops up a few inches away. 😵

Feel like it's going "HAHAHA! Where is your Garden naow?"

Imagine a garden full of these

TheHuskyK9 said:
Imagine a garden full of these

XD

fuck trapping it, just kill the lil bastards

RustyTorpedo said:
fuck trapping it, just kill the lil bastards

That's why I'm trapping them. I think it's a fourline plant bug.... but I need my specialist to check it and tell me the most effective way to neutralize and prevent it without poisoning my plants with pesticide.

They inject stomach acid into the plant then suck out the resulting mess... leaves behind a black polka dot pattern which then falls out and makes the leaves look like they got blasted with widespread buckshot....

I heard DDT is quite effective, but you mentioned something about not poisoning your plants... So maybe not, but if you're gonna eat those herbs it's definitely better to be safe than sorry.

Yep, that's Poecilocapus lineatus.
We don't have those over here, so I don't know for certain what'd work. But you could always try some natural bug repellents. If you still have room and don't mind the stink.

Growing oregano, catnip, alliums, artemisias, and/or nasturtiums tends to be rather effective at keeping most beetles away. Some folks specifically single out onion and garlic as the best ones, but various other alliums (such as Allium stipitatum) worked better for me.

Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

Esme_Belles said:
That's why I'm trapping them. I think it's a fourline plant bug.... but I need my specialist to check it and tell me the most effective way to neutralize and prevent it without poisoning my plants with pesticide.

I was thinking flamethrower but I guess you want the garden intact

Fenrick said:
Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure ...

Genjar said:
Growing oregano, catnip, alliums, artemisias, and/or nasturtiums tends to be rather effective at keeping most beetles away. Some folks specifically single out onion and garlic as the best ones, but various other alliums (such as Allium stipitatum) worked better for me.

Those sound like some very interesting tips. Something I have to try if I ever get a garden to actually plant something in.

Woah woah woah

You GROW catnip?!

RustyTorpedo said:
Woah woah woah

You GROW catnip?!

I do, it's both an aromatic herb and believe it of not, an edible herb...yes I eat it sometimes. Mostly though I use it for my headaches.
!

Chessax said:
Those sound like some very interesting tips. Something I have to try if I ever get a garden to actually plant something in.

Water, dish soap, garlic.
Water, dish soap, cyan pepper.

Those two work, sprayed the plants and they either stayed and died within the hour, or fled and didn't come back.

Esme_Belles said:
Water, dish soap, garlic.
Water, dish soap, cyan pepper.

Those two work, sprayed the plants and they either stayed and died within the hour, or fled and didn't come back.

Nice tips, though I guess you have to repeat that every now and then? Feels easier if you can get natural deterrents like actual live plants. I'm a bit lazy sometimes, but like gardening, so my garden needs to be easy to manage.

However I'm pretty sure we don't have cyan pepper over here ;)

Chessax said:
Nice tips, though I guess you have to repeat that every now and then? Feels easier if you can get natural deterrents like actual live plants. I'm a bit lazy sometimes, but like gardening, so my garden needs to be easy to manage.

However I'm pretty sure we don't have cyan pepper over here ;)

There are plants that do that....but you have to plant one plant for every plant you want to protect.... and trees? You have to surround those...

As for spraying, I think every other day or if it rains. The soap and garlic stick the the leaves. Bug bites plant gets a mouth full of the stuff. Dies

And cyan pepper is the ultimate bug spray. It's like those ink bombs in bank money stacks :p (yeah I can't spell and spell check was useless.)

Esme_Belles said:
There are plants that do that....but you have to plant one plant for every plant you want to protect.... and trees? You have to surround those...

Yeah... And I guess it might even be more work tend to the plant protecting plants than the plants you want.

Esme_Belles said:
And cyan pepper is the ultimate bug spray. It's like those ink bombs in bank money stacks :p (yeah I can't spell and spell check was useless.)

I'm a very kind hearted grammar police, unless you try to rail me up, thankfully I have learnt to ignore English's slight fondness for double negative = negative.

Chessax said:
thankfully I have learnt to ignore English's slight fondness for double negative = negative.

Ain't nothing wrong with that.