There are good bugs, and there are bad bugs that plot to interfere with my carefully planned
garden with their evil destructive ways. So I created some rituals myself to
DESTROY THEM!
See this bug here?
It is the dreaded Japanese Beetle. It’s a ninja bug. It
sneaks in stealth like and hides on the underside of leaves. You can wake the next morning with your gang
of plants decimated, munched down so nothing is left but limbs and veins.
Oh, you can try to set a trap, but it won’t work. You’ll
just encourage more to come to their aide. You must kill them! Torch them!
Obliterate them if you want them gone. I inspect every under leaf as soon as I
spot them. I use my handy tweezers, put them in a cup of gasoline—and light it.
MWAH-HA-HA!
Then there is the elusive, hard to catch, Cabbage White Butterfly.
She looks harmless as she gracefully flutters from plant to
plant. But don’t let her fool you. She’s a liar, not a butterfly at all but
a lowly moth. Her little children are spawns of Hell. The tiny adorable little green
caterpillars lie unmoving like a chameleon in the center vein of a vegetable
leaf eating its way through to the next stage of its life-- they hide in the
cabbage, they blend into the broccoli head, and sometimes you don’t spot them
until they are COOKED ALIVE!
I can’t forget my nemesis the Squash Vine Borer.
It lives up to its name and does exactly that. It looks like
a colorful fly. They laugh at me as I chase them with my net, but this
year—this year will be different. Pantyhose will encase my zucchini stalks down
below the soil, tin foil on their tender limbs.
My defense is against its children who will munch their way up from the base through the squash vines until they wither and die. If you’re lucky you can spot an ill
vine, slit it with a knife, and with your tweezers pull out the gooey,
writhing, grub-thing. Then put them in a cup with gasoline—and BURN THEM!
HA! Oh bugs in disguise, you will find no rest for your offspring here! For I shall protect the fruits of my labor!
Below are some pics of last year’s recycle bin garden.
You can read the other bloggers posts on bugs below.
Participants and posts:
orion_mk3 - http://nonexistentbooks.wordpress.com (link to post)
Diem_Allen - http://mindovermistakes.blogspot.com (link to post)
Ralph Pines - http://ralfast.wordpress.com (link to post)
articshark - http://www.drslaten.com/blog (link to post)
Lady Cat - http://randomwriterlythoughts.blogspot.ca (link to post)
U2Girl - http://ancatdubh.org (link to post)
MsLaylaCakes - http://www.taraquan.com/ (link to post)
SuzanneSeese - http://www.viewofsue.blogspot.com/ (link to post)
robynmackenzie - http://iwanttobeawesomewhenigrowup.com/ (link to post)
Sunwords - http://susannedoering.wordpress.com/ (link to post)
Angyl78 - http://jelyzabeth.wordpress.com/ (link to post)
susanielson - http://somesemblancethereof.blogspot.com/ (link to post)
HistorySleuth - http://historysleuth.blogspot.com (link to post)
SRHowen - http://srhowen1.blogspot.com/ (link to post)
xcomplex - http://arielemerald.blogspot.com/ (link to post)
milkweed - http://www.thistlequill.blogspot.com/ (link to post)
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