Every single year, it seems like a different cadre of pests and diseases likes to rear its head in the garden.

I remember the first year I was here, Jacques. It was earwigs like crazy. We don't like talk about that.

Jacques has fever dreams and nightmares about it 24-7. I hear him screaming. He wakes up and screams.

And this year, or I suppose last year, maybe it was, oh man, it was more of the roly police.

So they kind of still similar vibe as far as how the pests act. And then this year, not so much of either of those, I have to say.

Yeah, it's been an interesting year. For me, like you said, I haven't really had that many earwigs.

I think sadly, it's probably due to the lack of rain, which you know, good and bad, I guess.

And also, likewise with the roly police, I actually definitely still have a decent amount of roly police, but they're not doing as much damage as they did before.

Well, at a normal level, they're beneficial, right? And so then it's like it's great to see them.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, they might have taken out a couple beans here and there, but they weren't producing anyway, so we lost there.

We had bad cabbage aphids on my brascas. I think it's probably because of what we teased a little bit in yesterday's episode of not quite harvesting them early enough or not quite planting them early enough.

So they got a little too far into the hotter part of the season, and then they got a little more susceptible.

Yeah, but I had crazy amounts of aviage. I mean, that's true.

That's what lost us and one cabbage shriner junior.

They sucked them dry. They absolutely destroyed them in the matter of like two or three days.

Yeah, that was wild.

So that and then a lot more of the june bug and figure beetle sort of category of flyers this year.

I have so many in my yard right now, and it's almost exclusively, I think, because of my calamansi tree.

It has so many fruit that are falling all the time, and that's what they're attracted to really. They love eating fruit.

I saw them on that one fatty peach in my yard, remember?

Oh, yeah.

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