Through the Microscope

One of our sister sites is LadybirdPlantCare which specialises in biological controls – or “integrated controls” as our non organic buddies call them.

Plug into your computer and go!

This basically sells bugs to eat other bugs – nematodes to eat slugs, lacewings and ladybird larvae to eat aphids, and a whole host of others to attack vine weevils, leather jackets and thrips, sciarid and whitefly, mealybug and scale insects. If you would like to know more about these then ask via the enquiries form and I’ll send you our little booklet on the subject. Ask the Intelligent Garden here.

One of the things it says is that at this time of year, you might be wanting to damp down the greenhouse so that its humid to help the beneficial insects. Topping up the numbers of predators to deal with aphids and red sspider mite might also be worthwhile. Next month you will need to be applying the chafer and vine weevil controls.

So what do they look like – here are a couple of vids taken courtesy of our Gardener’s Microscopes. These handy little beasts plug into your computer via a USB cable and enable you to see what’s going on – you can save little movies like these. You can buy our Gardener’s Microscope from our Amazon Site for £45.

And this is what you can see.