So I was messing around in my raised beds and giant (and I mean giant) manure/compost pile and found these nasty buggers.
How the heck do I get rid of them? Nothing is planted yet (its still too cold here) but I would like my future plants to survive.
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Robins and Flickers are digging them up in my garden... and I saw a Towhee yesterday 
Hey! I was pretty sure moles eat them too (last year, I panicked about a wee little mole with a cute pink nose in my veg garden and was reassured that the small non-hilling kind is pretty much harmless, and actually beneficial except for a few earthworms they eat in exchange) and did a search -- came up with this: https://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=pierson&book=night&story=lazy
I assume the hoe-handle hole is a simple trap and you can come back and collect them for disposal (I would put them in my birdfeeder
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You know to put cutworm collars on all your transplants, right?
Hey! I was pretty sure moles eat them too (last year, I panicked about a wee little mole with a cute pink nose in my veg garden and was reassured that the small non-hilling kind is pretty much harmless, and actually beneficial except for a few earthworms they eat in exchange) and did a search -- came up with this: https://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=pierson&book=night&story=lazy
I assume the hoe-handle hole is a simple trap and you can come back and collect them for disposal (I would put them in my birdfeeder
)You know to put cutworm collars on all your transplants, right?
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Comonly sold as Dipel, Bio-trol or Thuricide...
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This also protects the natural predators of these insects (dead meat with the chemical model, either directly or from eating poisoned prey) and protects the soil biologies (also mostly dead meat)..
Organics rocks!
HG
Fpund an interesting white paper from Nigeria comparing BTK to some of the most commonly used pesticides, and while insect damage was slightly higher with the BTK, crop yields were MUCH higher...
[url]https://www.bioline.org.br/request?jb03084[/url]
This also protects the natural predators of these insects (dead meat with the chemical model, either directly or from eating poisoned prey) and protects the soil biologies (also mostly dead meat)..
Organics rocks!
HG