A glow worm from last nights ramble, taken in Rue Dr Clot - or a UFO, lots of them about, can't remember if this was one or not- this is for Annie and Pete whom I miss on the late wanderings.
This is for Andrée. She insisted the other night there were no blue bees in the region. Here is one and I ran it past Barbara who is a bug woman by profession and she says its a bee. And blue.
These are eating the potato leaves, anyone out there know what they are? And how to get them to go away organically?
Forgot to take a camera tonight when I went to join the Scottish Dave clan at the crepérie. Pleased to report that the 3 brothers are in fine fettle, as is El and also Leo - Roy and Jo and Debbie happened to be there too and in high spirits.
My brother-in-law Phil has sent the Kurdish translation of the word 'Tilling'.
It means 'nipple'.
Tilling is the place (along with Riseholme) in E.F. Bensons' books about Mapp and Lucia, where gossip and scandal and notes about dinner parties are the theme.
As the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the brother of a number of scholars, mixer in mixed society, could it be possible that he knew this? I think we should be told...
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Colorado Potato Beetle...
Here's advice:
"Colorado potato beetle is a difficult pest to control. Hand picking has been used since before the development of modern pesticides. Hand-pick beetles, eggs and small larvae from infested plants as soon as possible (practical for a few insects on a few plants, but impractical for larger gardens and fields). Especially remove overwintering beetles that appear on young plants in the spring."
Here's a link with advice:
https://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/coloradopotato.html
Good luck!
The potato muncher is a leaf beetle, probably Colorado Beetle, known as Leptinotarsa decemlineata to us entomologists and as le doryphore to the French. They are still excluded from the UK (where they are a notifiable pest) but fairly common around here. They eat plants in the Solanacae - potato, aubergine and at a pinch tomato, but potato is the biggy. The only organic method it thumb-and-forefinger work.
Big bee definitely a Xylocopa carpenter bee, and the glow worm is a glow worm. Good luck with the grubs!
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