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Stinkbugs & huge insect populations

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I just saw on a Florida pest control website that stinkbugs are
considered beneficial insects.  Never realized that.  Just thought y'all
might like to know.  Also, I read somewhere too that cockroaches are
beneficial too (of course, not if they're in your house, just in the
yard).  Has anyone heard that about roaches?  We sure have had a bumper
crop of insects this year - much more than usual.

My green beans have little green worms on them.  They are really
destructive.  THey look like the pictures of cabbageworm, but I can't
find any info on them that say they eat beans.  I thought they were just
a pest for cole crops.  Anyone know?  Oh, the excrement is dark in
color, not green like it's supposed to be if it's cabbageworms.  

Luckily, I haven't seen any hornworms yet.  I'm sure I've got them, but
I haven't seen any yet.

Kim, zone 9b, so cal

"Carolyne J. Butler" wrote:
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> Mary wrote:
> >
> > They certainly
> > put up a fight when you go to remove them.  Squirting green tomato
> > excrement!! and thrashing at you.
> > Just in from the war zone
> 
> Just a thought. Don't know if this will work with hornworms
> or not, but I've tried this on stink bugs and some unknown
> orange-colored ant-like thingy with black legs that gathers
> in clusters on my tomatoes (not sure if they are good or bad
> since they're not in any book I have). This works great to
> drown roaches within a few seconds, in case any of you in the
> more southern climes have *that* icky problem.
> 
> Put some soapy water in a spray bottle and then saturate the
> target. (I use the Shaklee's Basic-H solution, the same one
> I use for cleaning, but I'm sure any soapy solution would
> do.) The trick is to get the water onto the breathing
> apparatus of the offending insect; the soapy solution
> allows the water to penetrate where ordinary water would
> not. Thus they drown.
> 
> Carolyne  (Florida Panhandle -- where it's now monsoon season
> and sticky hot and my teensy garden is looking spent, as gardens
> here usually do this time of year.)
> 
> --
> Teaching that enters the ears but not the heart
> is like dinner eaten in a dream. ~ Chinese proverb
> 
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