Comments on: Mite versus Mite http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2011/07/21/mite-versus-mite/ Sun, 19 May 2013 06:50:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Deirdre Larkin http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2011/07/21/mite-versus-mite/comment-page-1/#comment-38941 Deirdre Larkin Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:02:08 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=7571#comment-38941 Hi, Don---I think Delaware County is too cool and moist for two-spotted mites to prosper. The roses in my Catskills garden, like yours, have been hard hit by Japanese beetles this summer. Unfortunately, the best way to control them seems to be picking them off by hand . . . and I'm only there on weekends. You can go out picking after breakfast every morning! We haven't had a Japanese beetle problem here at The Cloisters, but we did have a brief but intense invasion of Colorado potato beetles, who ate huge holes in the leaves of the many solanaceous species collected in our bed of plants used in medieval magic. The magic plants have been grow in the same bed for years, and I intend to move them to another quarter of the garden next year to help control potato beetles, which overwinter in the soil in their adult form and emerge to feed in spring. Hi, Don—I think Delaware County is too cool and moist for two-spotted mites to prosper. The roses in my Catskills garden, like yours, have been hard hit by Japanese beetles this summer. Unfortunately, the best way to control them seems to be picking them off by hand . . . and I’m only there on weekends. You can go out picking after breakfast every morning! We haven’t had a Japanese beetle problem here at The Cloisters, but we did have a brief but intense invasion of Colorado potato beetles, who ate huge holes in the leaves of the many solanaceous species collected in our bed of plants used in medieval magic. The magic plants have been grow in the same bed for years, and I intend to move them to another quarter of the garden next year to help control potato beetles, which overwinter in the soil in their adult form and emerge to feed in spring.

]]> By: Don Statham http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2011/07/21/mite-versus-mite/comment-page-1/#comment-38891 Don Statham Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:13:19 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=7571#comment-38891 I Love it- Mite eat Mite World! And chance of a Japanese beetle eat Japanese Beetle? I would take a Godzilla eating beetle? Thanks for you wonderful posts- I will keep my eyes peeled for these mites. Best Don I Love it- Mite eat Mite World! And chance of a Japanese beetle eat Japanese Beetle? I would take a Godzilla eating beetle? Thanks for you wonderful posts- I will keep my eyes peeled for these mites.

Best Don

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