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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 cutworms with permaculture!
For this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- Not
- DE
- soap sprays or any kind of spray
- hand picking / squishing
- BT
- Do four of these things
- improve diversity of plants
- some species improve the strength and health of target plant
- some species discourage cutworms
- some species draw cutworms away from other species (sacrifice)
- these species typically attract cutworm predators
- build cutworm predator habitat (fireflies, birds, wasps)
- add mulch to target plant
- Document plant of the same species in another spot not being bothered by pests
- bring fowl in to eat the cutworms
To document your completion, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
- state which four cutworm control measures you will implement
- before, during, and after construction/implementation of each of the four cutworm control measures you select to implement
- Prove your efforts mitigated cutworms. Here are two possible ways to prove it:
- Have a “control” patch and document results during the time of year when cutworms are a problem
- Document one year without and one year with controls, same time of year
For this BB, you will control cutworms with permaculture!
For this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- Not
- DE
- soap sprays or any kind of spray
- hand picking / squishing
- BT
- Do four of these things
- improve diversity of plants
- some species improve the strength and health of target plant
- some species discourage cutworms
- some species draw cutworms away from other species (sacrifice)
- these species typically attract cutworm predators
- build cutworm predator habitat (fireflies, birds, wasps)
- add mulch to target plant
- Document plant of the same species in another spot not being bothered by pests
- bring fowl in to eat the cutworms
To document your completion, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
- state which four cutworm control measures you will implement
- before, during, and after construction/implementation of each of the four cutworm control measures you select to implement
- Prove your efforts mitigated cutworms. Here are two possible ways to prove it:
- Have a “control” patch and document results during the time of year when cutworms are a problem
- Document one year without and one year with controls, same time of year
