Some folks actually buy these predatory wasps at the garden store to add to their garden to control garden pests, but there is a better way. You’ll be investing in long term garden pest control. Leave these infected garden pests to allow the wasp larvae to hatch and continue to live in your garden. These white cocoons are the pupae stage of brachonid wasps. If you see caterpillars with white cocoons all over their bodies, don’t kill them. Instead of a stinger they have a long black ovipositor on their rear end that deposits eggs on the soft bodies of caterpillars. And once they arrive in your garden, given the right environment, they tend to stick around year after year.īrachonid wasps are small, usually less than 1/2 inch long. As these eggs hatch they consume the garden pest, freeing your garden of the problem. These wasps lay their eggs in the larvae stage of insect pests like cabbage butterflies, squash bugs (actually a moth), and tomato horn worms. These wasps don’t sting and you actually want them in your garden. Many of these garden pests have a natural enemy in the garden - the parasitic wasp. But I discovered another way that is way less work. One of my homestead friends recommends using duct tape to stick it to the bugs. When my kids were little, I paid them 5 cents a bug, that they drowned in a bucket of soapy water. You can hand pick the eggs and early stages of the larvae off your plants, interrupting the egg laying cycle. I used to do that. When it comes to insect garden pests, hand picking and crop covers, are a labor intensive way to deal with it. Maybe you’ve had a similar experience with bugs in your garden. I do not seem to be able to out fox them and keep my plants going. Pat echoed the frustration, ” Squash Vine Borers! My squash and zucchini will just get going and making fruit, and all of a sudden the plants go down.I’d love to find a non-toxic, reasonable way to keep them at bay or extinguish them all together.” Tracy said, ” Squash bugs… Bane of my garden.Elise asked, ” How do you get rid of tomato worms before they eat your plants? Every year my plants are doing great then all of the sudden tomato worms are eating them “.
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