I got em too Brother! It is so depressing when you work your garden and come out and see bugs eating/ killing your garden . I've seen these lil " boogers" all over my plants before. I need to make up some of your spray and fix em! I kinda got burned out in the garden this year. I lost my Dad 25 Jan 2020. Life ain't been the same. I plant a row of potatoes on Valentine's day every year in memory of my great-grandfather,who my Dad told me done same thing. Now I will do it in memory of my Dad. My Dad was 90 yrs years old. He was an Air Force Veteran. His military career going back to World War II. He retired in 1968. I chose a military career because of my Dad's example. I ended with 34 yrs military service. I also respect and appreciate your military service as well. I just wanted to tell you . I hope my garden interest will return to me, so many memories of my Dad and I working the garden together. I'm sorry for not sticking to subject. I respect you and appreciate what you do. Passing on what you know and learn! God bless you!
Hello, great video, thank you. I started researching these little jokers a couple of months ago. First they destroyed my potatoes, then my yellow squash. Once they devastated my tomatoes i had enough. I made the same misidentification mistake and my garden suffered dramatically. In my research, i found soap-water concoctions like yours. I applied the solution with undetermined results (as they literally destroyed their own buffet.) Another suggestion was hand picking. Having many large plants made this challenging, as they have so many places to hide. Now i am using an additional technique with good results. I bought a cordless vacuum cleaner with a flex hose and a flat, narrow nozzle. Im quite sure i look as crazy as it sounds, but im successfully catching the little bastards in groups. They cant scurry (or fly) away fast enough. They appeared from out of nowhere and multiplied at an alarming rate. I was ready to go scorched-earth on them. Ill be ready for them next time. Thank you for sharing your information, New subscriber.
So very sorry this happened to you, and I felt your pain. Thanks so much for sharing as I’m seeing these bugs on my tomatoes but they are not eating them!!! I will research further so appreciate you so much!!
Just discovered these jokers after noticing damage to my plants. I neglected them for one day then today I noticed them on my squash plants. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you so much, I have these on my squash plant, will be attacking them tomorrow!! I will definitely view you video with the organic pest control. Thank you for sharing
Ive seen these in my garden thinking they were after the aphids since ive seen them on my roses...great information that will help me this year,,, hate you had to got through this but appreciate your sharing this Important information...better get my sprayer ready with your formula...stay blessed
Dam, that sucks but, I think most people will go through something like this at some point in their life if they garden or maintain plant life on a significant Level. I’ve mis-identified critters before and put myself in an even worse situation. I’ve also underestimated critters before too and got my @ss handed to me by the critters. Thanks for the info and hopefully your garden has rebounded successfully.
I can only tell you that I used the Ruth Stout (ie mulch with hay deep) method this year for the first time. My squash did amazing. Last year my squash plants all died (not much mulch). If I do need to spray anything I use neem oil or the spray from "Hydroponic Gardening & More with Brent". Although this year I did not need to spray one time nor did I water even in drought conditions. Thanks to the Ruth Stout method. Thanks for all you do. Love your videos.
I like the Ruth S method EXCEPT in the weed / grass control. Bringing in ANY grasses will cause heavy pressure and more time in maintaining control of those grasses / weeds that are brought in from the hay and straw. Very hard to ensure there isn't any seed in that mulch material and if just one blade goes to seed unchecked then there are 100s of seeds new to deal with. Good method so long as you stay on top of it. Thanks.
@@3basketliving Agreed. I am constantly adding hay to my garden to suppress weeds. Fortunately I can get hay from a local farmer for practically nothing, very cheap. 900 lbs. of hay.
Yeah......I know what you mean. I use to use and still have Neem on hand and it seems to work on a few things but seems to be more of a repellent for some things. Using the orange oil and castille soap has proven over the years to be way more effective and much cheaper. You may have just received a text from a strange #. ;)
I don't know what I'm fighting. They look like red aunt's at a distance..... But They move weird. They all move at once at you. Their legs are longer they kind of look like mimic spiders. ... I just trimmed it very well and separated all of my plants because they were close together now that I can see them I'm hitting them with the homemade remedy but the eggs are white they take over the Dead cucumber it's weird and they all stand and protected and as soon as you try to attack it or put your hand near it they all move you move near you at once. It's kind of scary like a computer program they move very weird I can't stress that enough
Ok for everyone who likes this content please click the like button so the rest of us are more likely to see his videos and thom gets credit for his work.. Thom thanks for the vid addressing a most troubling pest
Right on! I assume that your soap might be actually a detergent? If so then that will certainly do a good job at killing the targeted insects. Some folks are trying to get the same results without using the inorganic detergents but one must do what make them feel comfortable. Thanks!
Vine Borers kill my vine plants. Eggs are left by a black moth. Almost impossible to see the eggs they lay and can't see the larvae as they are inside the vines.
This is tough, I did this thinking it’s going to be easy and thought wrong, I had those red bugs and aphid infestation, on top of that, the iguana wrecking everything
I used the formula you shared with the orange oil and Dr Wood soap. I sprayed these little...well. at 11 am. 2pm...no effect, 5 pm, still...no effect. So when do they die?
I just found them on my yucca plant buds....I do not have a garden just yucca plants....now I want to chop them down. Only thing I had to kill them with was wasp spray.
Had that problem on my plants also., Please send the info on what you use to kill these little MFs they sucking the life out my Garden....Thank for any info you can provide
Hello Tom, I mentionned in a comment in another of your videos about the new French technique of treating plants with plants. This book just came out this year. These guys are moving away from the traditional way of making all types of teas, including Comfrey tea, in open air containers. They are now using hydronic air purgers on containers with air tight covers to make sure that there is no air coming in when they are brewing their comfrey tea. Almost like when making beer or wine. This makes a comfrey tea that has a better smell (not the strong rotting putrid smell) and that is in the ph, redox potential and conductivity of the healthy habitat of the plants. It also make a tea that is less likely to attrack pest. They also mention in their protocols to stop all treatments with teas if you have an attack of pests or disease and move to a curatif treatment if you do not want to increase the pest or disease problem. Then once the problem has been solved by the curatif treatment, we can come back to treating with teas. I started testing out their method this year and will continue next year. Do you think that you might have spread your liguid fertilizer on the plants when you started to have some of your pests? This might have caused them to multiply quickly and come out of control!!!
I'm going to have to check this stuff out. You have created an interest for me to do so and I learning more truths. I do not think that what I'm doing cause the increase of the bug attacks at all....It was truly me protecting the leaf footed bugs and promoting or encouraging their population because I thought the were assassin bugs in the nymph stages.
Ever since I watched this video, I keep tinking that there might be another problem here outside from the bugs. I always keep in mind that bugs usually attack stressed or sick plants. I cannot speak for your situation since I don't have your type of soil and climate. But here on our farm, with our type of soil (sandy clay loam) with solid rocky cape underneath we get a lot of rain and we need to have raised beds. We have been using wood chips on our lingonberries for 15 years and the garden for 2 years. Even with the raised beds, that are covered with wood chips, we still have a small amount of phytophthora root rot problems in our lingonberries. In the garden, the raised beds really help out with the drainage. Just some thoughts, you might want to investigate to see if your plants have not been affected by phytophthora root rot.
@@3basketliving the first time i saw them in my life was when i move to Houston...so to me they look pretty and there my finger went to touch them...never again for sure... they were a lot of them in a bush... Here in Houston there are very interesting bugs...i like nature and admire many of them...but there is a time when i say enough...u are no playing nice so i have to kill them..
Well the organic pesticide I make with the orange oil took care of things quick. If you don't have then Dawn works just as good but it's not organic and you may want to hose it off the plants after 30 mins. or so if your concerned about it. Cheers!
You just MIGHT want to finish watching the videos like this one to completion, It was spoken of more than once. Being well aware of my lacking of abilities to produce videos, I kindly suggest watching them at a playback speed of 1:25 at least. I can be a little slow or long winded. Cheers!
I got em too Brother! It is so depressing when you work your garden and come out and see bugs eating/ killing your garden . I've seen these lil
" boogers" all over my plants before. I need to make up some of your spray and fix em! I kinda got burned out in the garden this year. I lost my Dad 25 Jan 2020. Life ain't been the same. I plant a row of potatoes on Valentine's day every year in memory of my great-grandfather,who my Dad told me done same thing. Now I will do it in memory of my Dad. My Dad was 90 yrs years old. He was an Air Force Veteran. His military career going back to World War II. He retired in 1968. I chose a military career because of my Dad's example. I ended with 34 yrs military service. I also respect and appreciate your military service as well. I just wanted to tell you . I hope my garden interest will return to me, so many memories of my Dad and I working the garden together. I'm sorry for not sticking to subject. I respect you and appreciate what you do. Passing on what you know and learn! God bless you!
Sorry for your loss Robert and thank you very much Sir for your kind words.
Hello, great video, thank you.
I started researching these little jokers a couple of months ago. First they destroyed my potatoes, then my yellow squash. Once they devastated my tomatoes i had enough. I made the same misidentification mistake and my garden suffered dramatically.
In my research, i found soap-water concoctions like yours. I applied the solution with undetermined results (as they literally destroyed their own buffet.)
Another suggestion was hand picking. Having many large plants made this challenging, as they have so many places to hide.
Now i am using an additional technique with good results. I bought a cordless vacuum cleaner with a flex hose and a flat, narrow nozzle.
Im quite sure i look as crazy as it sounds, but im successfully catching the little bastards in groups. They cant scurry (or fly) away fast enough.
They appeared from out of nowhere and multiplied at an alarming rate. I was ready to go scorched-earth on them.
Ill be ready for them next time.
Thank you for sharing your information, New subscriber.
Thank you I was wondering what they were. Could not find any thing on them. Now I know what they are I can get rid of them. thanks again!
they hang out under the leafs, but usually all on one leaf - then come out to eat on young fruit.
I had the same problem this year... How devastating!
Yeah it sucks but hopefully you know how to deal with them cheap and organic. ;)
Thank you!
I do not like mishap pens, however I love learning, so thank your for your teaching me tonight Brother Gardener
So very sorry this happened to you, and I felt your pain. Thanks so much for sharing as I’m seeing these bugs on my tomatoes but they are not eating them!!! I will research further so appreciate you so much!!
Thank you for sharing.
Just discovered these jokers after noticing damage to my plants. I neglected them for one day then today I noticed them on my squash plants. Thank you for sharing this.
I had to pick my tomatoes early at sign or ripening in order to enjoy my tomatoes this year. They are out of control.
I'm assuming you are referring to the leaf footed bug being out of control. I certainly have my experience in the quick damage they can cause now.
Thank you so much, I have these on my squash plant, will be attacking them tomorrow!! I will definitely view you video with the organic pest control. Thank you for sharing
Ive seen these in my garden thinking they were after the aphids since ive seen them on my roses...great information that will help me this year,,, hate you had to got through this but appreciate your sharing this Important information...better get my sprayer ready with your formula...stay blessed
Thank you found some recently in my small garden!! Had no idea what they were.
Dam, that sucks but, I think most people will go through something like this at some point in their life if they garden or maintain plant life on a significant Level. I’ve mis-identified critters before and put myself in an even worse situation. I’ve also underestimated critters before too and got my @ss handed to me by the critters. Thanks for the info and hopefully your garden has rebounded successfully.
I had the same pests this yr, I'll def be checking out your organic pesticide video
I can only tell you that I used the Ruth Stout (ie mulch with hay deep) method this year for the first time. My squash did amazing. Last year my squash plants all died (not much mulch). If I do need to spray anything I use neem oil or the spray from "Hydroponic Gardening & More with Brent". Although this year I did not need to spray one time nor did I water even in drought conditions. Thanks to the Ruth Stout method. Thanks for all you do. Love your videos.
I like the Ruth S method EXCEPT in the weed / grass control. Bringing in ANY grasses will cause heavy pressure and more time in maintaining control of those grasses / weeds that are brought in from the hay and straw. Very hard to ensure there isn't any seed in that mulch material and if just one blade goes to seed unchecked then there are 100s of seeds new to deal with. Good method so long as you stay on top of it. Thanks.
@@3basketliving Agreed. I am constantly adding hay to my garden to suppress weeds. Fortunately I can get hay from a local farmer for practically nothing, very cheap. 900 lbs. of hay.
GREAT ADVICE, Thank You
We can relate. We got hit hard by pests this year, including two kinds of squash bugs. We have been using Neem Oil, to a mostly mediocre outcome.
Yeah......I know what you mean. I use to use and still have Neem on hand and it seems to work on a few things but seems to be more of a repellent for some things. Using the orange oil and castille soap has proven over the years to be way more effective and much cheaper. You may have just received a text from a strange #. ;)
@@3basketliving No cell service out here. Wont get any text until I get into town.
They also leave white eggs all over your new growth of cucumbers
I don't think I've seen the eggs in a 'white' color myself.
Hand vacuum!!! Seriously!!! Changes everything with battling squash bugs
It's weird how they all move at once
Yeah their almost like ducks and geese following one another until they get big enough to go out on their own.
I don't know what I'm fighting. They look like red aunt's at a distance..... But
They move weird. They all move at once at you. Their legs are longer they kind of look like mimic spiders. ... I just trimmed it very well and separated all of my plants because they were close together now that I can see them I'm hitting them with the homemade remedy but the eggs are white they take over the Dead cucumber it's weird and they all stand and protected and as soon as you try to attack it or put your hand near it they all move you move near you at once. It's kind of scary like a computer program they move very weird I can't stress that enough
Ty I'm dealing with this now
Ok for everyone who likes this content please click the like button so the rest of us are more likely to see his videos and thom gets credit for his work..
Thom thanks for the vid addressing a most troubling pest
Pyrethrin is the insecticide you're talking about
I took a leaf and squished them. they like to all hang out together so that makes it easier.
I got them this year. I just used soapy water and sprayed thr bugs directly. They die in a few seconds.
Right on! I assume that your soap might be actually a detergent? If so then that will certainly do a good job at killing the targeted insects. Some folks are trying to get the same results without using the inorganic detergents but one must do what make them feel comfortable. Thanks!
@@3basketliving dawn soap. If left on the leaves will cause some spot to turn brown but can wash off after a few minutes and be ok.
Vine Borers kill my vine plants. Eggs are left by a black moth. Almost impossible to see the eggs they lay and can't see the larvae as they are inside the vines.
I did the same thing with squash beetle thinking it was an orange ladybug!
This is tough, I did this thinking it’s going to be easy and thought wrong, I had those red bugs and aphid infestation, on top of that, the iguana wrecking everything
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So sorry, thank you for sharing, I did find those same bugs, I did kill them.
Watched your whole video and subscribed I'm on a similar mission my friend thank you for your input.
I used the formula you shared with the orange oil and Dr Wood soap.
I sprayed these little...well. at 11 am. 2pm...no effect, 5 pm, still...no effect. So when do they die?
I followed it to the letter except the molasses.
I just found these on my tomato’s today, how do I get rid of them?
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I just found them on my yucca plant buds....I do not have a garden just yucca plants....now I want to chop them down. Only thing I had to kill them with was wasp spray.
I panicked....now I know neem oil and dishwashing detergent....tomorrow I will be armed hahaha!
Had that problem on my plants also., Please send the info on what you use to kill these little MFs they sucking the life out my Garden....Thank for any info you can provide
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Hello Tom,
I mentionned in a comment in another of your videos about the new French technique of treating plants with plants. This book just came out this year. These guys are moving away from the traditional way of making all types of teas, including Comfrey tea, in open air containers. They are now using hydronic air purgers on containers with air tight covers to make sure that there is no air coming in when they are brewing their comfrey tea. Almost like when making beer or wine. This makes a comfrey tea that has a better smell (not the strong rotting putrid smell) and that is in the ph, redox potential and conductivity of the healthy habitat of the plants. It also make a tea that is less likely to attrack pest. They also mention in their protocols to stop all treatments with teas if you have an attack of pests or disease and move to a curatif treatment if you do not want to increase the pest or disease problem. Then once the problem has been solved by the curatif treatment, we can come back to treating with teas. I started testing out their method this year and will continue next year. Do you think that you might have spread your liguid fertilizer on the plants when you started to have some of your pests? This might have caused them to multiply quickly and come out of control!!!
I'm going to have to check this stuff out. You have created an interest for me to do so and I learning more truths. I do not think that what I'm doing cause the increase of the bug attacks at all....It was truly me protecting the leaf footed bugs and promoting or encouraging their population because I thought the were assassin bugs in the nymph stages.
Ever since I watched this video, I keep tinking that there might be another problem here outside from the bugs. I always keep in mind that bugs usually attack stressed or sick plants.
I cannot speak for your situation since I don't have your type of soil and climate. But here on our farm, with our type of soil (sandy clay loam) with solid rocky cape underneath we get a lot of rain and we need to have raised beds. We have been using wood chips on our lingonberries for 15 years and the garden for 2 years. Even with the raised beds, that are covered with wood chips, we still have a small amount of phytophthora root rot problems in our lingonberries. In the garden, the raised beds really help out with the drainage. Just some thoughts, you might want to investigate to see if your plants have not been affected by phytophthora root rot.
those little red bugs bite really fast and it is painful...ask me how do i know? they are gorgeous thou
Maybe what's biting you is an actual Assassin bug? Thanks for sharing.
@@3basketliving nope was the red bug because i touch it thinking that was a good insect...
@@3basketliving the first time i saw them in my life was when i move to Houston...so to me they look pretty and there my finger went to touch them...never again for sure... they were a lot of them in a bush... Here in Houston there are very interesting bugs...i like nature and admire many of them...but there is a time when i say enough...u are no playing nice so i have to kill them..
I'm dealing with the same thing. I bought some lady bugs but they took off :(
Well the organic pesticide I make with the orange oil took care of things quick. If you don't have then Dawn works just as good but it's not organic and you may want to hose it off the plants after 30 mins. or so if your concerned about it. Cheers!
What did you do to get rid of the leaf footed bugs? Did you use Neem oil?
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What did you use to get rid of the bugs, neem oil?
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What’s the point if you don’t share how u actually killed them. What was the formula?
You just MIGHT want to finish watching the videos like this one to completion, It was spoken of more than once.
Being well aware of my lacking of abilities to produce videos, I kindly suggest watching them at a playback speed of 1:25 at least. I can be a little slow or long winded. Cheers!