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September 27, 2025 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, we all need help on the inside our home
and also on the outside and join us. Now is
Ron Wilson, and he is, I say, our gardening guru.
He didn't want to be a guru. He likes to
just be yard boy. Yard boy. What in the world's
going on?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Are you? Sir?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I have a question for you. I mean, by the way,
whatever col do you have, whatever is giving you? This
is really deep tone. I know it's a it's very perfect.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
I just sounds like Barry White, very little berry White.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
There.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
You might want to sing to missus Solovon today.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm not singing to anybody.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I got a question for you. Would you eat honey
that was produced from other bugs excrements?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, when you ask it like that, no, but I
would ask you, is this going to kill me? Make
me sick? Maybe me sneeze, make me feel better?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
It should make you feel better.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
And no, I would taste it.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
It's honey, it should make you feel better.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Then I would taste it. Okay, would you try somem?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh? Absolutely, they can't wait. I haven't tried it yet. Okay, Okay,
I just found out about it this week. Now, who
in the world and we had this insect that's yeah,
moving through our area, and it's going to move through
the midwell, mideast, middle Midwest all over the place. I'll
get it right here in a minute. And it's called

(01:21):
the spotted lantern fly. And we have it now in Cincinnati,
and it's in Columbus, Cleveland's and other states. And this
thing is like an aphid on steroids, beautiful insect. It's big,
but it's a it's a sucking insect. So when they
get on trees and that they they can really take
out a lot of juices and they take it out
so fast they can't they don't digest all that, they

(01:42):
just shoot it out the other end what they don't use.
So that's and so when you have and they have
scale and aphids and that that's what you get. And
then sometimes that turns black and it's called sooty mold.
But that's the honeydew from these insects. Insects, yeah, are
just your plants, plants, and so this huge, this huge

(02:06):
spotted lanternfly, which probably the coolest bug I've ever seen
in appearance, uh so y, yeah, gives off so much
of this honeydew. The bees now late in the season
are going and collecting that honeydew for nectar because it's
so sweet.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
The bees are collecting it.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, the honey bees are actually collecting that as nectar
from the flowers, taking it back and producing honey in
their eyes so quickly that the beekeeper can't keep up
with it.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Really.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, and it's a dark color, kind of like if
they were at a buckwheat field. Buckwheat produces a dark
colored honey. It's kind of a sorgum flavor. This has
more of a smoky flavor. But it is they've not
determined it's from the spotted lantern fly honeydew. So I just,
you know, I kind of said, you know as well,
it's bug poop, but that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Ron And you're increasing age. Yes, what I would suggest
to you, yes, is that you become a beekeeper.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, I've assisted.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Huh, and you can call it yard boys. I don't know,
lanyrn fly poop? Is that what you want to say?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Could be Wow, you could have a good retirement with that.
And I don't like getting stung. And I you know,
I assisted a beekeeper for a couple of years and
I fortunately I didn't get stung.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
But are suits and everything.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
But one of the beekeepers this morning said she accidentally
put on the wrong socks the other day, and they
will come after it when she's taken it apart, because
they're aggressive when they're you're taking that. They got up
under her sock, stung her almost twenty six times. She's
used to it. It happens. She understands it's her fault.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
She's still scratching up, but she.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Said that her knees and her hips felt so much better.
About five hours after she got stung, she said, there
is just a testimony on the great use of beaven them.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, the folks that had ms. Yeah, it was
with beastings exactly. My camera man.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
A lot of research done on that.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
He actually did that. He swore by it. Yeah, hm hmm.
Well I think I know what we're talking about. So
where do you think this is going?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, it's just interesting. You know, we're trying to get
the spot of lantern fly. Not a good thing where
you know it's it's easily controlled. It's become a major nuisance,
and we'll become more of a major nuisance, especially for
grape growers vulnerable a lot get on all kinds of things.
But tree of heaven stinct tree, that's their host tree.
So yeah, so if you chop that weed tree down,

(04:44):
you get rid of their host tree. But they move
by egg masses. They liked female likes to lay eggs
on railroad cars and cars and things like that, so
they moved quickly through areas. I was in Cleveland last
week and they're everywhere up there. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
They're everywhere, like on plants are like yeah, all over
the like.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh well, the sidewalk was interesting. You get these little
blurbs where people have been stepping on them.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
So yeah, but it's that. But either thought that was
interesting that they're actually taking advantage of that very sweet
nectar and making honey out of it.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
I would say, look forward to to Kruger's.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Near you, coming coming to a store near you. Yeah,
spotted lantern fly honey. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
You are just a fountain knob.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
By the way. You you said something about fall clean up,
because fall, you know, shutting down. We aren't even close, man,
Come on, we got.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
A long way to go in summer.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Still, we still are planting. Fall season last until November
or longer. So get out there and plant.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I'll be quiet, all right, all right, Thank you you
met Ron Wilson online dot com. You can learn about
spotted lantern fly. Honey, we'll call that all right. Your
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