so here at Daley's Nursery we're  interested in producing food plants
  these are plants that produce what  you're going to eat and we want to
  reduce the chemicals that we use on our  plants so in order to do that we need to
  look at alternative ways of controlling  pests and diseases a more organic approach
  an approach that integrates things into  our environment so in doing so we
  actually incorporate some of the pests  into our growing procedures and
  processes our farming practices so what  we're going to talk about today is the
  good the bad and the ugly so these are  the good bugs and the bad bugs and here
  at Daley's we have warm humid polyhouses this is where we grow things and
  they're really great environments for  things like two spotted mites and two
  spotted mite is a common plant pest so  if you have a look at this plant here
  this is a berry it's called a Keriberry and you can see there are some
  yellow leaves and then some dark green  leaves which is the new growth now these
  older leaves were infested with two  spotted mites and what we did was we
  released some predatory mites into this  area of the polyhouse and these have
  actually controlled this problem on the  plant
  they've just predated them they're fed  on them we need the two spotted mites to
  feed the predatory mites and we get a  balance of the two
  so what we actually get is a healthy  plant and we have a healthy environment
  that includes lots of different insects  in our environment we also have birds
  and reptiles and different animals that  visit and live in our polyhouses some
  of the reptiles will control slugs the  birds will eat insects so they're really
  important part of our environment and  they actually make our working
  environment a better place because we  live beside all the things that are part
  of our environment and we want to live  beside the insects so if you have
  insects on your plants the first thing  you need to do is to be able to identify them
  and in order to do that you actually
  need a magnifying glass so I have here  these pretty cool glasses
  these are magnifying glasses and you can  identify pests with these they have a
  little light
  and they look super funky
  and I've got here some leaves of the
  Curry bush so in order to see what's  infecting these leaves I need to be able
  to magnify it
  and what I can see using those glasses  is that the pests that have infected
  these leaves are no longer there so this  is old damage it's not current damage
  and if you look at these plants these  are the curry plants so these also had
  an infestation of two spotted mites when  we released the predatory mites they
  took control of this infestation so the  Predators had plenty of food they
  feasted on these mites they brought the  problem back into balance and you can
  see now we have this beautiful new  growth on our plant so what we want to
  try and help you to understand is that a  bit of damage on your plants a few eaten
  leaves a little bit of discoloration is  not a problem it's actually a part of
  our environment and if we want to live  in a rich world with lots of insects and
  bugs we need to reduce our chemical use  we need to stop using blanket
  insecticides to control pests and we  need to look at alternatives so today
  we're going to look at what someone
  like bugs for bugs a company
  that sells organic pest control live  insects to control your bugs can offer
  you in your backyard and what we're  doing here at Daley's Nursery to
  control our insect pests
  
        
      
 
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