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Natural Solutions to Garden Pest Problems
People used to say, “The only good bug is a dead bug!” They used strong chemicals to try and kill every creature in their yard. Now Organic Control Incorporated, or Orcon, know that can be dangerous to us and the planet. They know it’s better to work with Mother Nature instead of against her.
In 1976 Orcon began offering a complete line of beneficial insects to the home gardener. Because they know that every garden pest has a natural enemy, they wanted to provide the alternatives people need to control pests without having to use things that are not good for them, their kids, or the earth.
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Green Lacewings-1,000 & 4,000 Eggs
The natural enemy of many species of pests, insects and mites. The adult green lacewing only feeds on pollen, but it will immediately begin laying eggs, and the life cycle will repeat. |
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Lady Bugs 1 gallon, 1,500, 4,500 & 9,000 Count
A favorite “good bug” and alternative to chemicals. When released at sundown, they eat aphids, mealy bugs, scale, leaf hoppers, various plant-eating worms and other destructive soft-bodied pests. They keep on eating until the bad guys are gone, laying their own eggs in the process.
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Beneficial Nematodes
These microscopic organisms destroy pests that live underground. They will destroy more than 230 different kinds of insects, including Japanese beetles, cut worms, wire worms, weevils, white grubs, fungus gnat larvae, flea larvae, subterranean termites and many more. |
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Decollate Snails
These small snails will actually attack and destroy the common brown garden snail and its eggs. And rather than slime around on walkways, they prefer to burrow just under the surface, seeking out their prey and laying their own eggs. |
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Trichogramma
Trichogramma is an effective destroyer of caterpillars (which are leaf eaters in the larvae stage) and moth eggs. Some of the moth eggs attacked by the Trichogramma are: bollworms, tobacco budworm, codling moth, corn earworm, alfalfa caterpillar, gypsy moth, cutworm and tomato hornworms. |
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Delphastus
Delphastus is a small, shiny, black beetle, about one quarter the size of a ladybug, which feeds on several species of whitefly including greenhouse, sweet potato (silverleaf) and avocado whitefly. If whitefly are not present they will also feed on spider mites |
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Encarsia Formosa
The Encarsia formosa is a parasite of the greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, a pest of many plants in interior plantscapes and outdoor gardens. Greenhouse whiteflies are typically found on poinsettias, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and other plants that stay fairly close to the ground. |
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Cryptolaemus
Cryptolaemus are often called “Mealybug Destroyers” because of their voracious appetite for Mealybugs! They look like small ladybugs with an orange head and tail and a black body. Their first choice is Mealybugs, but they also eat aphids, immature scale and immature whitefly. |
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Predatory Mites
Predatory mites are adult mites that seek out and kill pest mites, particularly the common spider mite. Best used at the first sign of an infestation, you only need two-to-five adults per plant. |
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Aphytis Melinus
Aphytis melinus is a parasite that is effective on several different kinds of scale, including: red scale, yellow scale and oleander scale. They are commonly used on citrus trees. |
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Fly Parasites
Because flies reproduce so rapidly, chemicals have never been successful in controlling fly populations because they can mutate and produce pesticide-resistant offspring. Fly Parasites interrupt these prolific insects’ life cycle, breaking the chain. |
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Praying Mantids
Mantids (mantis) eat various mites, insect eggs, aphids, leafhoppers, mosquitoes, caterpillars and other insects when young. The adult mantis will eat larger pest insects. |
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