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Little Book of Pests www.harrodhorticultural.com Little book of pests ✓ Easy pest identification ✓ Recognising plant damage ✓ FREE advice & tips service ✓ NEW range of What’s inside… Pest control is one of Ants 3 the biggest challenges in the ornamental or Ants Aphids 4 vegetable garden. Even by (Lasius niger, Lasius favus, Myrmica sp) ✓children ✓pets ✓wildlife Caterpillars 6 rotating crops, companion Carrot Root Fly 8 planting, selecting resistant ✓Natural Choice Pest Control: Chafer Grubs 9 varieties and timing Fungus Fly 10 planting, it is inevitable that Ant Nematodes USE OUTDOORS Leatherjackets 11 you’ll still encounter pest problems along your Although total removal growing journey. It’s therefore essential that or elimination of ants Leaf Beetles 12 you are able to accurately identify the pests from gardens is difficult Mealy Bugs 14 and/or the damage they cause and then have to achieve, it is possible Raspberry Beetle 15 to drive them out of the controls in place to eliminate the threat. areas using nematodes Spider Mites 16 This 24 page book is a handy ‘what, where, Black ants infesting a garden lawn causing ant mounds that can be applied Slugs & Snails 18 when and how’ guide to common pests. Within directly to ant colonies Scale Insects 20 these pages we are also delighted to introduce when the soil Julian Ives, Harrod Horticultural’s Pest Control temperature is 10ºC/50ºF. One application will Vine Weevil 21 Expert, whose years of experience gained from gain control of ants already present in the soil Whitefly 22 where the tiny microscopic worms act as an studying pests and advising different types of irritant to ants causing them to leave their Order Form 23 growers is now available to our customers via colonies and nests. For best results, keep the soil FREE advice and monthly tips (see left & moist 2 weeks before application and water back cover). directly into the ant mounds in dull conditions. What’s eating N.B. not suitable for indoor application. Then there’s our NEW Natural Choice Pest Black garden ant milking black bean aphids your plants? Control range featuring nematodes, natural Ant Nematodes Large What to look out for… (treats up to 50 colonies) GPC-021 £19.95 Let Julian Ives, Harrod predators, sprays, traps and barriers. Together Ant Nematodes Medium Red and black ants are nuisance pests Horticultural’s Pest with our website it has 200+ organic (treats up to 16 colonies) GPC-010 £9.75 rather than plant damaging ones. Control Expert, help you solutions, each one being effective and totally Ant Nematodes Small safe around children, pets and wildlife. Armed Plants may suffer if ants are nesting in (treats up to 6 colonies) GPC-119 £6.95 identify your pest the containers they are growing in but with these you’ll find that it is much problems and/or advise the main problem is their presence in Agrothrin for Ants USE INDOORS easier than you think to kill or deter you on the best organic lawns or houses where they are active For indoor invasions by ants, or for use in between garden critters without harming the paving slabs and under patios, we recommend solutions. Email from early April to late September. environment, enabling you to Damage to lawns is caused by ant using natures own insecticide - pyrethrum. [email protected] Agrothrin is supplied as a pyrethrum powder, enjoy a healthier harvest. mounds (pictured above), where soil which is a 100% natural insecticide made from or write to Julian Ives, that has been excavated for nests Harrod Horticultural, ground up chrysanthemum leaves so is completely appears on the surface. This impedes organic. The 100g puffer packs are specially Pinbush Road, Lowestoft, mowing and the presence of ant adults STEPHANIE HARROD designed to help you access ant colonies that are Suffolk, NR33 7NL. on lawns can be unpleasant for children difficult to reach whilst the 1kg pack can be applied and adults when being used for liberally in more open areas. Agrothrin will Postage and Packing is £2.00 if your order ONLY contains recreation. Ants will also make nests also provide a safe way to control indoor products from this booklet (except netting, fleece and FREE under paving slabs too, in flower beds pests like cockroaches and silverfish by those on page 19). If your order includes these exceptions or and will sometimes enter houses. applying behind stoves, fridges and other monthly other items from our website and main catalogue, then please note that our Ants are known to milk aphid places where pests congregate. pest control advice standard charge is £4.95 unless your order includes an item with a yellow colonies for the honeydew they produce Agrothrin for Ants lorry (£12.95) or red lorry (£19.95). Full conditions on page 23. to your inbox. (pictured above). This has little effect (2 x 100g puffer packs) GPC-113 £9.95 Just provide us with on the aphids but ants will sometimes Agrothrin for Ants your email address for Did you know that we have over 200+ organic pest fight off aphid predators, which hinder (1kg pack) GPC-114 £14.95 regular and timely the natural pest control of aphids. tips from our expert controls in our Natural Choice Pest Control range at Julian Ives. www.harrodhorticultural.com superior products to grow your own telephone orders 0845 402 5300 I 3 FREE monthly pest control advice Aphids to your inbox. Just provide us with your email address for regular and (Aphidoidea family) timely tips from our expert Julian Ives. ✓children ✓pets ✓wildlife ✓ Natural Choice Pest Control: USE INDOORS USE INDOORS Aphids have many natural enemies, OR OUTDOORS some of which can be used to combat aphids in gardens and greenhouses (see right). Due to the rapid reproductive rate of aphids it often requires a mix of these natural predators together with traps and an effective fatty acid spray (see FOR HEAVY INFESTATIONS EARLY INDOOR CONTROL below) to control them effectively. Lacewing larvae - for spot treatments & heavy infestation Apply parasitic wasps to get early control & minimise damage Sticky Pest Traps Aphid Kill using Aphid Control Aphid Prevent Gain early control by hanging these Lacewing Larvae using Ladybirds using Parasitic Wasps up in glasshouses in the winter and Aphids - their high reproduction rate makes them a Lacewing larvae are ideal Ladybird adults are very Use the tiny parasitic wasps, troublesome pest in the garden early spring to catch flying aphids. These are a pesticide free, non-toxic predators for controlling aphids effective predators of aphids Aphidius colemani, early in the when tackling spot treatments and are best used for indoor season as a preventative What to look out for… way of monitoring problems and to help with the timing and selection and heavy infestations on low control, where in a contained measure in indoor locations. The aphid family is a large one of control. Can be used around all growing plants, like bedding environment they can eat up to Putting this down (when containing many different aphids that edible and non-edible plants. plants and lettuce (temperatures 5,000 aphids in their lifespan! If temperatures are above 12°C ) are the most troublesome of all garden 10cm x 25cm H. of 15ºC+). The larvae are aphids are attacking plants before signs of problems emerge insects. They include commonly known 10 Pack GPC-159 £4.95 between 2-10mm long and one outdoors, then it is better to opt will not only minimise damage insects like Green Fly, Black Fly and larva can eat over 300 aphids for ladybird larvae that can also but also the cost of dealing with per day when applied between be used indoors too. The larvae a larger problem later on. 3 x Woolly Aphid. Female aphids can Organic Savona reproduce asexually, which means as May and September. They also can eat 100-150 aphids per day 250 parasitic wasp bottles Fatty Acid Concentrate benefit by feeding on some and can be used on a wide supplied, each one sent soon as they are born they can Here’s a fatty acid, non-toxic spray that is other pests such as spider mites variety of plants where the separately every 2 weeks. One reproduce and they do this in very ideal to control aphids, red spider mites, and thrips. Sprinkle the shaker supplied jute bag helps with bottle can be applied to an area large numbers. They normally whiteflies and mealy bugs on all edible and bottle contents out over the their distribution on larger up to 250m2. overwinter on host plants before non-edible plants where it kills on contact. It plants that are infested with plants. Hang 1 bag of larvae on 3 x 250 Wasp Bottles moving to other plants in the spring won’t leave any harmful residue on the aphids, either indoors or a soft fruit plant, tree or shrub, GPC-133 and summer that include the rose, plants and it’s 100% safe around children, outdoors, where one bottle of or 2-3 for larger trees. Ladybirds £29.95 many trees and vegetables. pets and for the environment too. The 1ltr 500 lacewing larvae will treat up and their larvae can be applied USE ADULTS Damage from aphids can be severe, concentrate dilutes to 50ltrs (to cover an area to a 50m2 area (repeat treatment from early May (only apply INDOORS of 500m2) that represents great value for as required). It’s important to larvae in temperatures of 10ºC+ OR LARVAE especially when they reach high FOR LIGHT IN/OUTDOORS numbers. They are sap sucking insects, money and it should be applied when pests note that the lacewing larvae indoors or outdoors) but INFESTATIONS are seen (indoors or outdoors).
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