Battle of the Bugs

So as many of you know we’ve been battling the bugs this year. What is worse I don’t know what bug is worse between the White Fly Moths which breed and spread just as fast as the covid 19. There can be one then two than 4,8,and pretty soon you have hundreds in just 48 hours. I What happens is they lay eggs on your leafy greens, like kale, cabbage, broccoli, and then I find them on my flowers, tomato plants, basically everything they can land on. It is terrible. The caterpillars hatch, just demolish the leaves on the plant. Eat them down to nothing. I have never seen this before. We are trying BT which is an organic product and is already in the ground. I like it because it is of no harm to other good insects.

The other pest is the Japanese Beetle. My I am learning a lot about these devils. They eat holes in my leafy plants, flowers, anything they like to land on. I found they like my Okra 98 plant leaves and my sunflower leaves. I purchased Bag a Bug traps last year and this year but found they were not as interested in them as much as they were last year. I started picking them off the leaves of my plants and throwing them in the bug traps to attract more. It has but still have to pluck off and stamp them out. Purchased shade cloth and use a lighter weight screen mesh but somehow they find their way under the nets so you still have to hunt and squish or stomp them. Never ending battle. Another friend told me that the little smelling trap stuff invites them from miles around (oh no what have I done) ! am attracting them to our farm with the bag a bug traps?

When we rented our land a few years back, I found them attacking are farm from the soybean fields which the farmer planted and harvested on our land. I did not invite them here! I really just want them gone. Praying for a solution.

Talking to other farmers and they say, well they don’t have them in all their fields. I really hope next year when I move the produce to another field they will not follow me!

Any comments are welcomed!