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Your organic garden will not grow and flourish on its own, but needs much care and attention to detail. But apart from all the garden maintenance that is required, there are also garden pests like the pharaoh caterpillar to treat.

The organic gardening pharaoh caterpillar has a soft-body and therefore it is often prey to other creatures like birds, small mammals and other insects. These caterpillar-eaters usually keep populations in check, but sometimes numbers can still get out of control. When this happens there are a few things you can do to slow their destructive paths without using garden pesticides.

Begin with a physical attack. Early morning or late evenings are the prime pharaoh caterpillar’s hunting times. Wearing gloves, look on the underside of leaves and flick off anything that looks like an egg cluster. If you find an adult pharaoh caterpillar pick it off and drop it into a bucket of soapy water to kill it. This method is time consuming and there is no guarantee that you will find them all.

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There are many organic gardening tips that you can use during the process of growing your vegetable, fruit, vegan or plant garden.

For starters, you can use mulch on your flowerbed and trees, with 3 inches of organic material. Doing this will help conserve water and add humus and nutrients to your soil. It will also discourage weeds from popping up in your organic garden.

If you are growing plants that love acid, thickly use mulch layered with pine needles during the fall season. While the pine needles decompose, they will deposit acid contained within them into the soil.

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There are various organic gardening pest control methods that you can use to help rid your garden of the different types of pests that may damage it. Which pest control method you use will depend on the type of pest you are trying to rid your garden of.

If you have different sized animals attacking your organic garden, but don’t want to harm them, you can use Havahart Traps. These are pest control products used for live-trapping animals. You can buy different sizes to meet the needs of your animal pest. They are easy to set up and safe for you and your children to be around (even your own animal pet friends). They work great!

If your pest problem is really big, such as deer, you will need a different form of organic gardening pest control.

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The organic gardening beetle is also known as the eyed click beetle. It has two large false eyespots on its exoskeleton and when it feels threatened; it flips onto its back and clicks its thorax, causing it to jump up into the air a couple of inches. It keeps doing this acrobatic move until it feels safe. Organic gardeners should not fear the eyed click beetle. It poses no harm to humans or their organic gardens.

Instead, the organic gardening beetle is more interested in eating larvae of wireworms. The eyed click beetle spends most of its time in rotted stumps and logs.

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