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Re: Bugs on Peppers, pepper spray recipe, and larvae in peppers

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Trudi-  Facinating! Pepper spray ala Trudi coming up. Thanks for the tip on
bug repellent.
bill missen.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Davidoff" <sdavidof@optonline.net>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Bugs on Peppers, pepper spray recipe, and larvae in peppers


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| Mike,
|
| You could actually try making a pepper spray. Buy a fresh hot pepper
| from the supermarket, if you have one ready in the garden, put it in a
| blender or a food processor with about a cup of water and whir it to a
| puree. Let the solids settle to the bottom and then use the clear pepper
| "broth" in a mister and go out and squirt your plants. This seems to
| ward off all sorts of buggies. Make sure you're very careful to wash
| your hands and be downwind when you are misting the plants. The pepper
| spray will sting your eyes, it hurts (the voice of experience)!
|
| I try to grow organically and occasionally find a few bugs in odd
| places. Last year I found a few larvae that were living inside my
| hottest peppers, I don't know what type of butterfly or moth they would
| have turned into if I had not interrupted their metamorphosis. I think
| that this is a very fascinating self-preservation method. By eating the
| hot pepper the larvae ingests the capsicum and morphs into a butterfly
| with the hot pepper's own heat as part of its  "flavor".  Any bird,
| animal, or bug that would try to eat the butterfly would get a mouthful
| of the burning hot pepper taste and promptly spit out the bug. The bug
| itself might not survive the initial chomp but the predator will
| remember the experience and not eat any identical or even similar
| butterflies in the future. Hot stuff!
|
| Trudi
|
|
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