Rodger - such a wonderful suggestion, the bat house is! I appreciate the Bt/safer soap (?) rec as well. I have considered putting up bat houses before for mosquito control (we are mosquito central here in the spring/summer/fall) & have simple plans for building them. Plan to use some leftover deck boarding.
I visited with the Farmer's Supply ladies earlier in the winter - got set up with Bt among a few other things. I really detest those pickle worms & squash borers on a visceral level. The pickle worms are on the same order as egg thieves - sneaking little robbers, just ruining my lovely crisp cukes (yes I did harvest them all & chunk them up, cutting out the trails & worms). But those squash borers... pulling them out of the squash stems was "Alien" revisited in the garden...yecch!
I really appreciate your recs & will be instituting them.
I was also thinking of starting some sort of diversion crop that would pull in those hornworm moths - they are beautiful - unlike their larvae.
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February 6, 2009
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