Small Hive Beetle in Traps

Aethina tumida

Small Hive Beetle

Aethina tumida

Replaced damaged box on monitored hive

Added small hive beetle oil trap

Grafting Tomatoes and Aphids on Cherry

Grafted tomato to Solanum capsicoides

Black Cherry Aphid (Mizus cerasi)

Socks on Apple

European Wasps - What are they good for?

Vespula germanica Attracted by the scale on the Melaleuca -  
potassium soap spray and Imidacloprid = nothing to attract wasps.

Evil Ladybird

28 Spotted Ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)

Pests, Grafting and Bees

Grafting apples

Aphids on Peach

Opening the hive after winter to add a super

Bugger!

More seeds for the tomato rootstock required

Chook Dinner

Red Headed Cockchafer (Adoryphorus couloni) from a vegetable bed

Socks on the Apple Tree don't protect against Monster Codling Moths

Or it could have been a bird

More Powdery Mildew on Zucchinis

Hardly any fruit this year - too wet and humid

Dead Whitefly after whiteoil

Aleyrodes proletella? Trialeurodes vaporariorum?

Powdery Mildew on Zucchinis

Podosphaera fusca on Cucurbita pepo

This is the rat that ate the sweetcorn that grew in the garden

Apples filling the codling moth socks

Fusarium Wilt on Tomato

Fluffy Bums Must Die

Nymph of Passionvine Hopper (Scolypopa australis)
Apparently known as Fluffy Bums in NZ
The cute name didn't save them.

Passionhopper poo

Passionvine Hopper

Passionvine Hopper (Scolypopa australis) on my grafted eggplant