ASK TOBY.Byline: TOBY Q. I want to know if the biological control of slugs really works? MR DACKERS Bilston A The simple answer is yes! But because you do not see the results, like you do when you shake out a dusting of blue pellets, you have to have faith, and the proof of the pudding proof of the pudding n. Informal The ultimate evidence attesting the true nature of something: The proof of the pudding is in the election results, not the polling. is not in the eating. That is to say you will not see the garden strewn strew tr.v. strewed, strewn or strewed, strew·ing, strews 1. To spread here and there; scatter: strewing flowers down the aisle. 2. with small carcasses, but neither will you wake up to discover that your prize plants have been munched. Biological control means using a natural predator to kill the slug, in this case a tiny worm called a nematode nematode or roundworm Any of more than 15,000 named and many more unnamed species of worms in the class Nematoda (phylum Aschelminthes). Nematodes include plant and animal parasites and free-living forms found in soil, freshwater, saltwater, and even vinegar which is present in our soil anyway, and by watering on the control you are simply bulking up the natural population TOP TIPS 1. I've noticed that many of my plants have a dose of that constant nuisance, the whitefly whitefly Any sap-sucking member of the insect family Aleyrodidae (order Homoptera). Nymphs are flat, oval, and usually covered with a cottony substance. Adults, 0.08–0.12 in. (2–3 mm) long, are covered with a white opaque powder and resemble moths. . Unless in enormous numbers, they do not actively damage the plant, but their sap-sucking antics can reduce vigour. Kill with an application of pesticide or in the greenhouse use the biological control Encarsia formosa, a tiny parasitic wasp. 2. It's about time It's About Time may refer to:
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