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Chemical Free Pest Control

Green Lacewing  

  One of my favorite beneficial insects, the green lacewing. Quite unknown to the public but extremely effective in controlling nearly every pest in the garden and/or orchard. They are often referred to as the 'lion of the insect world' because of their vicious hunger for pests. Green Lacewing metamorphosis starts as an egg, then larvae (picture below), pupa, then an adult. As larvae they are the lions. They travel the trees and plants devouring any and all insect eggs and young. As adults they are nocturnal and pollinate, which is also beneficial to your garden or orchard. They are completely harm-free to humans and animals.

Above Left: Green lacewing eggs, lacewing larvae attacking a pests egg. Above Right: Nymph green lacewing, aka the lion of the insect world.

Fly Parasites

   Below are a few pictures of fly parasites (Pteromalidae), the most important natural enemy to the fly.  The reason they work so well on farms (and many other applications) is that they attack the fly in the pupae stage and therefore the young never hatch and never have the chance to reproduce. One female fly will lay up to 900 eggs and travel for many miles. Do the math and you will find that by the end of summer, one female can have many millions in her prosperity.

  Flies have been around since the beginning of time and they will be around until the end of time. They are extremely resilient and can build strong characteristics against mans best chemical efforts to kill them. When we spray them with our strongest concoctions in effort to kill them, we see many adult flies drop to the ground dead. But, do we see the flies that got a small dose of our spray and flew off sick? Those sick flies go and lay eggs, their young now have a resistance, and as they grow they may be given a non-killing dose of chemical and pass more resistance to their young and so on. Soon we have resistance and a bigger fly problem than before. To combat this, we are making stronger chemicals and mixing chemicals to make a soup and spraying more often to kill the flies, with less success. (Keep in mind: these chemicals are entering the bodies of our farmers, their families and animals and the water supply.)

 Here is a picture of the parasitized fly pupae in the packaging that I deliver them in. The yellow is sawdust and the brown specs are the fly larvae that have been taken over by the parasites. There are three species of fly parasites in each package to ensure the broadest spectrum of fly control. The parasites in the delivered pouches are ready to hatch as adults and lay their eggs in fly pupae so that their young can feed on them and kill them. Dead fly, no resistance built, yet nothing harmful to humans or the environment has taken place.

 Above is a picture to show the size of the adult parasite. They are the two small specs above the sawdust. If you look close you can see their legs and three body segments. They are about the size of a pinhead. This type of wasp is native to the USA, nocturnal and can not sting humans or animals. They winter over and will reproduce naturally in the field, as long as we do not spray and kill them. They do not fly far from the place they are born, about 200 meters, and therefore are great to trust around your farm because they won't be flying far enough to leave!
FAQ:
-Contact me via email: lizphotoz@gmail.com or #435-512-9798
-It costs about the same to supply with fly parasites as it does to spray. Sometimes less. The prices I offer are the best in the industry.
-They will reduce your fly population instead of just barely controlling it. I can teach you how to make this happen.
-In Cache Valley, Utah I have clients that have used my help and this system since 2002 and report that they will never go back to spraying and their fly control is better than it ever was before. I have many clients who continually thank me for the improvement.
-Again, completely non harmful to anything but flies! Natural to Utah, but are scarce here due to being killed by chemicals used to kill flies and other pests.

Spider Control

Top picture: Black Widow

Bottom Picture: Hobo Spider aka Aggressive House Spider

  The best way to control these two spiders around your home.....chickens! Okay, I will be reasonable and admit that not everyone will run off and buy chickens right now! But first, let me give you some reasons not to spray or to only spot spray. The hobo spider does not walk flat to the ground and therefore its body does not touch the spray that your exterminator has put out for you. But all of the natural predators to the hobo spider will get sick or die from this spray. Next you will have a breakout in hobo spiders because they have few enemies left due to the spray you applied. The same is said about black widows.

  Ideas I have had success with include: sticky traps, never killing wolf spiders (natural enemy), not killing rocky mountain hornets or their nests (natural enemy), and spraying the exact web and spider (spot spraying) not the whole foundation and house.  Well, I guess if you are spot spraying, since you are so close to the spiders anyway, you may as well just stomp on them.  That would be a sure kill, hehe.

  Quite a few years ago I worked for a large pest extermination company.  One day, one of the guys came back to the office with an armful of sticky tape with 50+ live, squirming hobo spiders on it!  In an effort to more quickly take these spiders out of their misery, and for our peace of mind, we decided to spray the spiders with poison.  We grabbed our favorite diazanon spray and went wild.  The spray only served to get the sticky tape sopping wet and allowed the spiders to slip off of the tape.  The spiders swiftly ran straight for us, under the desk, and in every corner and every inch of the office!  Warning!  Don't do this!  Ahhhh!  They eventually died due to the chemical, some even made it a few hours before dying, but it was definitely not worth the scare.  

There are natural and effective ways to kill: mosquitoes, grasshoppers, aphids, ants, grubs, flies and many more common pests. Feel free to email me for advice: forgetmenottomorrow@gmail.com.

Below is my son with a woolly bear caterpillar we played with during the fall. Because we don't spray for pests in our yard we have a lot of fun catching and learning about butterflies, moths, preying mantis', caterpillars and so forth. Although, the backyard is pretty much empty of critters due to the chickens.