It's that time of year. When the heat and sunshine cast out
those cold and rainy days making the conditions ripe for the
emergence of those dormant and overwintering garden insects. The
other day when I was puttering around in my garden I uncovered a
whole array of different insects taking up residence. I have
been studying insects and their management over the last 5
months so this was geek-out central for me and needless to say,
a very exciting discovery. However, for many gardeners, the sign
of pests in their garden is anything short of exciting. My
specimens included spittlebug, aphids, whitefly, silverfish,
leafminer, spider mites, a beet armyworm (one of the many
destructive caterpillars found in gardens) and all kinds of
incubating eggs. This was the optimal time to do some de-bugging
before the numbers of these guys increased, which in some cases
can be as fast as 48 hours. The world of insects and the control
of them is a vast subject that people devote their entire life
to studying. So in the intere