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Pollinator Friendly Gardening

Whether pollinator-friendly gardening sounds daunting or adventurous, it is in reality quite a simple and do-able task. By making an urban garden, regardless of its size, a welcoming place for insects and animals, you are helping to preserve essent

Started by Ian Morton

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Native Bees... Great Pollinators for Farmers, Lifestyle Block Owners, Fruit Growers and Gardeners!

Native Bees for Farmers, Lifestyle Block Owners, Fruit Growers and Gardeners!

Are you a farmer, lifestyle block owner, fruit grower or gardener thinking about native bees?

Even if you aren't, pretend for a moment and read what you can do to make your

Started by Ian Morton

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Enhancing habitat for Frogs, Reptiles & Bats in gardens.

I know this group is focused on insects but often these three groups are often underestimated in NZ due their low diversity, low population and non-standard beauty. But they can be extremely good predators and they are endangered. There is an enormou

Started by Ricardo Valbuena

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Cabbage White Butterfly deterrent

I have been told of a a deterrent for cabbage white butterflies: To place a large white butterfly hanging in her garden and the real ones wouldn't go near her cabbages (etc).

This woman got told it by a friend, who swore it works. She tried it and

Started by Jacqui Knight

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White fly

Anyone got any suggestions for organic solutions for whitefly on kale?

Angie

Started by Angie Gibbons

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Green vegetable bug - Pyrethrum spray

I'm having major problems this season with the green vegetable bug. Sprayed with Success a week ago. First time I've sprayed for these bugs or with a non-organic spray BUT I'm over them destroying all my veggies! Even after the spray they're still t

Started by Jeffie

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Can anyone tell me what these little black bugs are?

Hi everybody, upon returning home from holiday Ive noticed all sorts of little bugs nestling away in my plants.

I just came across this litle bunch of critters on my catmint and was wondering if anyone knows what they are and whether they are good or

Started by Bridge Scully

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Bronze Beetle

Can anyone tell me what spray is best to use on my trees for the bronze beetle. Our fruit trees are being stripped of all leaves one by one!

Started by Jeffie

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what is the best way to catch slugs and snails

i like to garden with as little chemical activity as possible and would like to find out if anyone had any tips for catching these wee beasties that could then feed to the chickens.

Started by Daniel Andrews

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Earwigs

Hi all, I am having great problems with earwigs and the only way I can reduce their numbers it to capture them in news paper and take them to my mother-in-laws chooks, but this is not too practical due to distance and I cannot own chooks in this prop

Started by Peter Smee

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Did you know not all grasshoppers eat plants?

I always thought all grasshoppers ate plant matter. It turns out I was wrong. Some grasshoppers such as the Swayer Katydids are predators that eat other small insects. When you see a grasshopper on a plant it may not be causing the holes in your leaf

Started by Katharine

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Everyone is encouraged to post

I’m not an entomologist. I don’t study insects professionally and to be completely honest until about five years ago the average flying bug would send me running and screaming in the opposite direction waving my arms around generally looking quite ma

Started by Katharine

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