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	<title>Sustainable Eats &#187; Garden Pests and Beneficial Insects</title>
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		<title>Corky Catches a Bee Swarm &#8211; Joshua McNichols</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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The tee-ball field behind Salmon Bay School was swarming with kids, excited about the final t-ball game of the season. But in the Northwest corner of the field, just beyond the rubber track, a small group of kids stood mesmerized by a swarming mass of honeybees on a red sweatshirt on the ground. Emboldened, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post:  Living with Beneficial Insects by Joshua McNichols</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today while I was gabbing my friend Joshua on the phone he said &#8220;I&#8217;m watching a yellow jacket eat a green caterpillar.&#8221;  I immediately shouted into the phone &#8220;GO get your camera and take pictures for me!&#8221;  He caught these amazing pictures and wrote a guest post which is timely given Chiot Run&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hush, hush, hush, I smell a rate close by&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday around noon I checked on the garden then left for an hour.  When I came back there were rat teeth marks in my biggest eggplant.  Cringing, I picked it and then cut off the part that had been gnawed.  After all, eggplants are rarer then a pink elephant in Seattle gardens.
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		<title>Spit Bugs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week another pest has proliferated like crazy.  I&#8217;m seeing spit bugs all over my hardy fuschias and they are beginning to invade the strawberries. 

Nothing messes with my strawberries. 
Spit bug eggs overwinter in grasses, ornamentals and strawberries and hatch in warm, humid conditions so usually the beginning of June in Seattle but apparently they&#8217;re a little ahead this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Controlling Pests Organically &#8211; Fun with Bugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 07:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve finally had enough days with the weather warmer then 70 degrees (or close to it) that a great many pests are appearing.  While watering the other day I noticed something had munched on my Azalea.  Upon closer inspection I realized a great many things had been munching on it and they were, in fact, [...]]]></description>
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