From today's online NZ Gardener, a trick to beat the butterflies, the white ones that is.
"I read on a website recently a tip from a lady who discovered white butterflies are very territorial. Out of an old white plastic icecream container lid, she cut out little replica shapes of white butterflies and attached them onto sticks and stuck them in her garden around crops that the butterflies like to lay their eggs on. Then she watched as the butterflies flew over her garden and didn't bother to land. Well I thought, what the heck I'll give it a go. And, would you believe it, it actually works! I just stuck them on little satay sticks."
Brilliant!
Simple!
And kinda graceful too.
Thanks Liz Mackenzie of Glendowie!
2 comments:
Wortha try white butterflies are hard to control even with chemicals and I imagine a nightmare without
I just hope it doesn't turn into a variation of half full bottles of water to keep dogs off lawns that spread through the country in the 80s
RayF
We used tennis racquets for the job when we were kids, though it seems a little brutal now. I'm definately going to try this one - it appeals to me in the same way as using hawk-kites to frighten blackbirds and thrushes off my berry bushes and apple trees does.
Those water bottles didn't work Ray? Go on!
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