Elizabeth Russell, an expert gardener and former board member of the California Rare Fruit Growers, shares her experience with devastating fig beetle grubs and offers solutions for control.
– a shiny green scarab beetle that feeds on overripe fruit and decomposing organic matter – I received the following email from Elizabeth Russell, who gardens in Newport Beach.“I am a past board member of the California Rare Fruit Growers , and have a degree in Agricultural Science. Despite the repetition of certain claims on the internet, fig beetles are NOT innocuous. The grubs are deadly. When fig beetle eggs hatch, the grubs/larvae feed on decomposing material.
Thuricide, the product Russell recommends, is a biological control agent. This means that it is a living organism that preys on another. In this case, the control organism is a bacteria known as BT . According to the label, Thuricide BT “has no effect on birds, earthworms, or beneficial insects such as honeybees and ladybugs, when use as directed. Acceptable for use on edible plants up to the day of harvest.
First of all, there is the plant itself in which your praying mantis resides. More likely than not, this plant has lots of dense interior growth within which the insect finds shelter and where it can deposit its eggs, protected from the elements and hungry birds. There are probably plenty of other insects around as well.
Praying mantis mating habits are sometimes unusual. In certain species, the female tries to eat the male’s head during mating and may consume the entire male after that. If the male does not manage to get away, it will continue to mate for several hours in a headless condition. Female mantises of some species can reproduce asexually –the process is known as parthenogenesis – and thus do not need to mate.
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