Gypsy moths: unwelcome guests with big appetites - using natural controls to prevent annual defoliation
Flower & Garden Magazine, August-Sept, 1994
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Natural Controls
Plants - Adding plants to your pond is a great natural way to help control algae. Aquatic plants can control algae by consuming nutrients needed for algae growth.
Natural controls, including parasitic wasps and some birds, help keep poplar twiggall fly populations in check. Control with insecticides has proven unsuccessful or marginal.
The state of natural control, self-regulation of the numbers of plants and animals in a community, brought about by interactions within and between plants and animals and the effects of environment such as weather.
6. Encourage natural controls such as toads, lizards, many birds, and beneficial insects. Avoid chemical sprays, if possible; they wipe out helpful creatures along with pests, leaving the garden vulnerable to new attack.
There aren't many natural controls for adult Japanese beetles. Birds aren't partial to them and although some predatory wasps and flies have been imported, their population isn't large enough yet to control the Japanese beetle problem.
It is a concern for some, that all natural controls, botanical and biological, are classed under the same umbrella as toxic chemical controls.
There is apparently a high degree of natural control of the cabbage looper by predators and parasites. Also a polyhedral virus disease seems to be a key factor in population changes of the cabbage looper.
Systemic pesticides should only be used as a last resort, once all natural control methods have been tried.
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Organic Controls- Any non-chemical, natural control method is considered organic Beneficial insects, companion planting, and organic repellents are all organic insect controls.
These are the most effective mosquito killers around, and they will capture (and kill) the mosquitoes that your natural controls miss.
Slugs and snails love herbs, especially Basil. Try methods of natural control and pick off any that you see on or near plants.
This habit, plus their phenomenal ability to reproduce and their great sensitivity to myriad natural controls, causes great fluctuations in their numbers from season to season.
Natural Insect Control: The Ecological Gardener's Guide to Foiling Pests, edited by Warren Schultz (Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1994). Describes plant pests and offers myriad effective, natural controls. See bbg.org/handbooks.
Herbal Kitchens N Gardens - providing high quality herb and vegetable plants grown in a 'people and animal friendly' environment using only botanical and natural controls.
However, this does not mean that gardens only include native species; exotic plants that attract beneficial insects and wildlife are also appropriate, as long as they are not invasive. Pests and diseases are kept at bay through natural controls and ...
mostly because the insect is quickly resistant to new insecticides. However, in backyard plantings (or in commercial orchards where spraying is minimal), a host of biological controls is available and can provide a high level of natural control.
for a more natural vegetated cover, similar to what exists in the wild. This provides for improved water quality, habitat for native wildlife and protects against the proliferation of undesirable vegetation, because it does not have natural controls.
 See also: Natural, Plant, Soil, Insect, Water
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