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Saturday, June 09, 2007
Depestication
Anything that crawls, creeps, walks or flies wants to eat your hard work. It's not that they want to make your garden look bad, they're just hungry. And so are their relatives. Though there's no cell phones in the bug and varmint world, they've got other ways of googling for food. The flying insects have the bird's eye view, and can distinguish the shapes of leaves and crops quite well - especially if the pattern is repeated:
yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck
yuck yucky
yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum
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yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck
yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yucky
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yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck yucky
Perhaps a
little too subtle for a morning read, but you can discern the good from
the bad, and there's plenty of it!
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yum yuck
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Better, though
still visually so web 1.0 - some would say web 0.5 beta, but I digress.
yuck ick yum avoid yum bad yum danger yuck ick yum avoid yum bad yum
danger yum
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bad yum danger yum yuck
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yuck ick yum avoid yum bad yum
danger yuck ick yum avoid yum bad yum danger yum
yum avoid yum bad
yum danger yum yuck danger yuck ick yum avoid yum bad yum bad
ick yum
avoid yum bad yum danger yuck ick yum avoid yum bad yum danger yum yuck
Invite the carrot cousins over! - Brooklyn Botanical Garden article
How to Make Your Own Yellow Sticky Traps at eHow.com
The same goes for microscopic pests like bacteria and fungus. Crop rotation can rid a lot of these, but sometimes you need more methods. Some recipes include: