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the soil surface — to prevent insects, such as cutworms, from reaching and damaging stems of plants.
Commercial spun-bonded row covers or cheesecloth can be used to exclude cabbage maggots and onion maggots, leaf miners, aphids, beetles and squash vine borers.
• Traps and lures: Traps may attract insects by visual or chemical cues. Visual traps such as yellow, sticky boards are generally used to monitor insect populations.
• Management: Good cultural practices will help to reduce or prevent many pest problems in the garden.
However, when a control treatment is warranted, choose the least-toxic material, such as a biological agent.
Many biological agents are available commercially, such as Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.), a bacterium that attacks caterpillars. Preserve naturally occurring beneficial insects by using selective controls where possible and by avoiding unnecessary use of pesticides.
Chemical control should never be used as a supplement to the methods described above, and certainly not as a first line of defense.
Accurate identification of the pest is ' necessary belore deciding what to use. And when you do spray, please, no chemicals!
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