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| Keeping Birds from Eating Cherries
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What can I use to keep birds from eating my cherries before I have a chance to taste them. I tried pie plates, flags, etc. (anything shines). Even me standing on the ladder in the middle of branches they come to have their meal. And I look like a scarecrow, mind you. I know you'll have an answer to this problem. I notice other people are having the same trouble with cherry trees.
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| Posted on: 08/14/2008 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| What Is Eating Holes In My Leaves?
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Something is eating the leaves on my plants and leaving them looking like lace.
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| Posted on: 08/14/2007 | 6 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden Insects: Cockroaches
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 Adult cockroaches are medium-sized insects, with a broad, flat shape and long antennae. Often confused with beetles, the cockroach's wings are membranous and they lack the thick, hard forewing of beetles. Nymphs (immature cockroaches) look similar to adult cockroaches but lack wings. All cockroaches are nocturnal and prefer warm, damp and dark environments.
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| Posted on: 10/26/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden Insects: Chinch Bugs
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 Insect guide for Chinch Bugs. This fast moving little bug is 3/16 to 1/8 of an inch long, with a black body and white, red or brown wings. Adults chinch bugs lay eggs in the soil in the spring after overwintering in the grass. The eggs hatch into small, legless nymphs that are pinkish in color and have a white band across their back.
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| Posted on: 10/26/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden Insects: Leafminers
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 Insect guide for Leafminers. These pale green or black, stubby little maggots tunnel through leaves and cannot be seen with the naked eye, but the visible spaghetti-like patterns on the topsides of leaves are easy to identify.
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| Posted on: 10/12/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden Insects: Leafhoppers
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 There are many species of leafhoppers. Some are brown or green in color, while others are green and red with white markings. Look for slender 1/8-inch long wedge-shaped bugs that jump or fly when disturbed.
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| Posted on: 10/05/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden Insects: Japanese Beetles
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 Controlling Japanese Beetles. Look for metallic blue-green, long-legged beetles with coppery-colored wing covers. Adults lay eggs from June through August. Eggs hatch into fat white, comma-shaped grubs with brownish-orange heads.
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| Posted on: 08/28/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden Insects: Imported Cabbage Worms
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 Look for 1-inch long, velvety green caterpillars with a yellow stripe down their back. The Imported Cabbage Worm butterfly is white with dark wing spots and A 1 1/4 inch wingspan. The female butterflies are very active during the day and lay hundreds of yellow-colored eggs on the undersides of leaves.
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| Posted on: 08/28/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden Insects: Harlequin Bugs
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 Harlequin Bugs cause plants to wilt, turn brown and die by literally "sucking the juices right out of them."
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| Posted on: 08/28/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden Insects: Gypsy Moths
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 Gypsy Moths are usually only seen around mid-summer. The male moths are a grayish brown color and can fly. The female moths cannot fly, are larger in size and have a whitish color with black markings.
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| Posted on: 08/28/2006 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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