{"id":26136,"date":"2017-11-13T05:27:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=26136"},"modified":"2017-11-20T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T05:01:22","slug":"diversity-as-natural-pesticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/13\/diversity-as-natural-pesticide\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity As Natural Pesticide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/news\/diversity-natural-pesticide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists have published a study in <em>Nature<\/em> that explains why plant diversity discourages insect pests.<\/a> Damaging insects love monocultures, large areas planted with a single crop, because they conveniently concentrate nutrients in one place. Diverse plantings have less of what they like, so bugs need to work harder in search of food. As a result, they&#8217;re less likely to visit and hang around.<\/p>\n<p>While this research is about farming and not about houseplants, orchid growers may find this complements other natural, non-toxic remedies, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/creepy-carnivorous-plants\/\">carnivorous plants<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/beneficial-insects\/\">beneficial insects<\/a>. Grow a broad variety of plants instead of a single kind. For example, add some plant diversity to a lawn to battle pests, rather than pouring on toxic insecticides. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature20140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To learn more, find the full study at Nature.com (requires a subscription.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have published a study in Nature that explains why plant diversity discourages insect pests. Damaging insects love monocultures, large areas planted with a single crop, because they conveniently concentrate nutrients in one place. Diverse plantings have less of what they like, so bugs need to work harder in search of food. As a result, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-gardening","category-in-the-news","category-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26136"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28823,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions\/28823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}