Page 16 | Nah gah chi wa nong • Di bah ji mowin nan | July 2020 Ashi-niswi giizisoog (Thirteen Moons)

The new Aabita-Niibino-giizis, Mid-summer moon, begins July 2nd. Other names for this moon are Aabita-Niibino-giizis Miini-giizis, Blueberry Moon; Miskomini-giizis, Raspberry moon and Baashkawe’o-giizis, Flying moon.

ummer is here and many of their bodies. crops. That dam- people have begun gar- What they eat age becomes much Sdening, but with that we Typically Colorado potato bee- more important as have to worry about invasive tles feed on potatoes, but that they are more sensi- species. One that has become isn’t the only plant they will tive when they are a major pest in the last several destroy. They will also feast beginning to bulk years is the Colorado potato on eggplants, tomato, peppers, and can only toler- beetle (Leptinotarsa decem- nightshade, and ground cherry. ate 10% defolia- lineata). This invasive species Riding your garden of this tion. Tuber bulking has been impacting all of North pest can be difficult as they begins soon after America. will spend the winter months flowering, making Colorado potato beetle adults underground, typically 5-10 this an important become active in the spring, inches or so, under fields of time to watch for about the same time as potato potatoes, gardens, and other the Colorado potato plants begin to grow out of the areas. beetle infestation in ground. These beetles and their Adults will feed for a short your garden. larvae will devour leaves, leav- time once spring arrives and Protecting your ing plants completely defoli- then mate to lay somewhere garden ated. between 10-30 eggs. Each The Colorado po- Part of the problem with their female can lay up to 350 eggs tato beetle can de- impact on crops it that many during her life which can last stroy crops in your pesticides are ineffective on for several weeks. Those eggs garden and keeping them, however, a combination will hatch within two weeks them from doing of strategies can reduce their depending on the weather so is challenging. It A particularly effective effort Pesticide Use numbers and lead to successful conditions. Those larvae are ca- will require a few things, and to limiting the Colorado potato Colorado potato beetles are potato growth. pable of completely developing mostly the combination of pest bug is to plant potatoes in frustratingly resilient to almost Identifying the Colorado po- with 10 days if temperatures management tactics to reduce your garden every other year. all synthetic pesticides such as tato beetles are above 80º F or as long as their numbers which will keep That effort as well as keeping carbaryl, cypermethrin, delta- The first step to combating a month if temperatures are as them from destroying crops. potatoes from growing with a methrin, lambda cyhalothrin, them starts with being able to cold as 60º F. Keeping your garden clean, quarter to a half mile away and imidacloprid, permethrin, and identify them. These pests are In parts of the state south of particularly in the spring is temperatures not being exces- pyrethrins. These products are oval and about 3/8 of an inch the Fond du Lac Reservation, crucial to limiting their num- sively warm should help keep unlikely to be effective and long. They have yellow and or- there is typically a second bers as the look for other hosts the pest from invading your their use is not suggested. If ange bodies with yellow-white generation by midsummer. So in the absence of potato plants. garden. you use a pesticide to kill them wing covers with 10 narrow watching out for any stage of Weeds, such as nightshade and Of course the most effective and it doesn’t, switch to a dif- black stripe. Female Colorado the Colorado potato beetle is ground cherry, should be kept way is to hand pick beetles off ferent active ingredient. potato beetles lay clusters of wise to keep crops healthy. from your garden to keep them of plants in small gardens. If Colorado potato beetles are bright yellow-orange oval eggs The damage by these spe- from finding other food sources you do pick them, drop them not resistant to azadirachtin or on the underside of leaves. cies can be devastating to a and destroying your garden. and their larvae into a bucket spinosad. These products are Their larva however look dif- crop, particularly with older Another tactic is to plant an of soapy water. Remove, or also “soft” on natural enemies. ferent while they mature, hav- larvae who are responsible for early maturing variety that even crush, the yellow-orange Information and photo cour- ing a brick red body with black as much as 75% of damage way much of the damage can eggs on the undersides of tesy https://extension.umn. heads after they first hatch. As caused from their feeding. Po- already be missed by the adults leaves. Adult beetles can fly, so edu/yard-and-garden-insects/ they larvae ages, it develops a tatoes are known to tolerate up who are emerging in midsum- be sure to frequently inspect colorado-potato-beetles#.Xu- pink hue before forming into to 30% defoliation when they mer. One way to do this is to your garden for them. If you zh0ry2080.email adults. All larvae have two are in the vegetative state, so check catalogs for varieties that have a large garden, handpick- rows of dark spots on each side this much damage could ruin mature in less than 80 days. ing may not be the easiest to do. July 2020 | Nah gah chi wa nong • Di bah ji mowin nan | Page 17 Ashi-niswi giizisoog Ojibwemowin Page The new Aabita-Niibino-giizis, Mid-summer moon, begins July 2nd. Other names for this moon are Miini-giizis, Blueberry Moon; Miskomini-giizis, Raspberry moon and Baashkawe’o-giizis, Flying moon. Anishinaabemowin Lessons Basic Ojibwe words and phrases:

Double Vowel Chart “aa”- sounds like the “a” in father This is how to pronounce Ojibwe words. “i”- sounds like the “i” in sit All consonants sound the same as in “ii”- sounds like the “ee” in feet English. “o”- sounds like the “o” in go “oo”- sounds like the “oo” in food “Zh”- sounds like the “su” in measure “e”- sounds like the “ay” in stay “a”- sounds like the “u” in sun Ashi-niswi giizisoog BIGADA'WAA WORD SEARCH Find the Ojibwe words in the puzzle below

BAPAKINE/grasshopper BIMOONJIGAN/dance bustle BINGOSHENS/gnat BIPAKOOMBENS/cucumber BIZINDAM/listen BOODAAJII/inflate DIBIISHKOO/equal GIIGOOZENS/minnow GOTAAMIGOZI/good worker MOOKODAASO/carve NINOOSAN/hip OKAADENIGAN/braid WAAWAATESI/firefly WENIBAN/disappeared