This is a badge bit (
BB) that is part of the
PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the
straw badge in
Animal Care.
For this BB, you will control leaf eating beetles with
permaculture!
For this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- Control leaf eating beetles with
permaculture
- colorado potato beetle
- japanese beetle
- other leaf eating beetles
- Not
-
DE
-
soap sprays or any kind of spray
- squishing
- BT
- Do
four of these things
- improve diversity of plants
- some species improve the strength and health of target plant
- diversity of plants in a
polyculture to allow most plants to escape beetle attack
- some species discourage beetles
- Some cultivars are resistant to beetles
- some species draw beetles away from other species (sacrifice)
- these species typically attract beetle predators
- build beetle predator habitat
- add mulch to support health of target plants
- bring fowl in to eat the beetles
- Trap crop (grapes?) to attract beetles then shake
trellis to
feed chickens below
- Demonstrate how landscape texture and
underground diversity allow some plants to thrive while others suffer from beetles
- Texture could be 7’ hugelkulturs
- Show plants within 20’ of each other, one thriving, one suffering.
To document your completion, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
- state which
four beetle control measures you will implement
- before, during, and after construction/implementation of each of the
four beetle control measures you select to implement
- Prove your efforts mitigated beetles. Here are two possible ways to prove it:
- Have a “control” patch and document results during the time of year when beetles are a problem
- Document one year without and one year with controls, same time of year
Control Leaf Eating Beetles with Permaculture - PEP BB animal.straw.beetles
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