1 00:00:06,815 --> 00:00:10,655 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 2 00:00:10,895 --> 00:00:11,775 Speaker 1: from News Talks A. 3 00:00:11,895 --> 00:00:15,175 Speaker 2: B righty, Oh, we're into the garden. Would climb pass? 4 00:00:15,215 --> 00:00:19,015 Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, Oh, good morning, Peter. Are you good? 5 00:00:19,175 --> 00:00:19,735 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good. 6 00:00:19,775 --> 00:00:20,135 Speaker 3: I'm good. 7 00:00:20,255 --> 00:00:24,095 Speaker 2: Hey. Now, I don't mean to start on a somber note, 8 00:00:24,095 --> 00:00:26,695 Speaker 2: but today is Dolden hit Ankering. 9 00:00:26,775 --> 00:00:29,375 Speaker 3: Huh so yes, yeah, the fourth. 10 00:00:29,375 --> 00:00:32,695 Speaker 2: Yeah, fourth of May. So well, a bunch of duchies 11 00:00:32,695 --> 00:00:35,375 Speaker 2: will gather in the parnel Rose Gardens this afternoon. That's 12 00:00:35,375 --> 00:00:38,895 Speaker 2: where the memorial is, Dutch Memorial, So I'll go along 13 00:00:38,895 --> 00:00:39,415 Speaker 2: to that this. 14 00:00:39,335 --> 00:00:43,175 Speaker 4: Afternoon, remembering those that fought for in the war. Yeah, 15 00:00:43,215 --> 00:00:44,975 Speaker 4: that's my dad was really good at that. 16 00:00:45,135 --> 00:00:45,415 Speaker 3: He was. 17 00:00:45,455 --> 00:00:48,015 Speaker 4: He was writing actually he was eighteen when the war started, 18 00:00:48,215 --> 00:00:50,895 Speaker 4: right and managed to be in the in. 19 00:00:50,855 --> 00:00:55,175 Speaker 3: Theronto, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, boy, he was clever. 20 00:00:55,615 --> 00:00:57,295 Speaker 3: But there you go. Yeah, that sort of stuff is 21 00:00:57,895 --> 00:00:59,415 Speaker 3: there's some serious stories there. 22 00:00:59,615 --> 00:01:02,575 Speaker 2: Now, I've got some photographs of the village that my 23 00:01:02,655 --> 00:01:05,135 Speaker 2: mum was living and when during the war and saying, 24 00:01:05,175 --> 00:01:07,895 Speaker 2: you know, the Canadian tanks coming down the main street 25 00:01:08,015 --> 00:01:11,975 Speaker 2: and the liberation. It's remarkable photos and just outside of 26 00:01:11,975 --> 00:01:15,695 Speaker 2: the village memorial at Mars where four or five young 27 00:01:15,735 --> 00:01:18,015 Speaker 2: Canadian soldiers lost their lives right at the end of 28 00:01:18,015 --> 00:01:18,335 Speaker 2: the war. 29 00:01:18,575 --> 00:01:21,495 Speaker 3: So it's still a big gig in the Netlands. Is 30 00:01:21,575 --> 00:01:22,215 Speaker 3: that's huge? 31 00:01:22,415 --> 00:01:22,655 Speaker 4: Yeah. 32 00:01:22,895 --> 00:01:25,535 Speaker 2: I saw something the other day where, particularly in the 33 00:01:25,575 --> 00:01:29,415 Speaker 2: area where my family come from, there's like a walking 34 00:01:29,855 --> 00:01:32,535 Speaker 2: tour that you can do sort of following the liberation 35 00:01:32,695 --> 00:01:36,295 Speaker 2: stages as they went from village to village, which signs 36 00:01:36,335 --> 00:01:38,015 Speaker 2: like a really nice thing to do one time. 37 00:01:38,455 --> 00:01:40,535 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good, it's it's yeah, it's. 38 00:01:42,935 --> 00:01:45,095 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah nice eighty years as well. 39 00:01:46,775 --> 00:01:49,135 Speaker 4: Hey, I've got something else, just just very quickly. There's 40 00:01:49,135 --> 00:01:50,975 Speaker 4: a new book out that will be out on the 41 00:01:51,015 --> 00:01:53,815 Speaker 4: eight so this next week. It's called The Incredible Insects 42 00:01:53,815 --> 00:01:57,415 Speaker 4: of aud and it is it's both Simon Pollt and 43 00:01:57,455 --> 00:02:01,175 Speaker 4: fuel Servity of my mates. I was those two and 44 00:02:01,215 --> 00:02:04,415 Speaker 4: myself where the entomologists that's set up the the. 45 00:02:04,815 --> 00:02:05,975 Speaker 3: What do you call it? 46 00:02:06,055 --> 00:02:10,255 Speaker 4: The to Papa exhibition about or maybe eight years ago 47 00:02:10,455 --> 00:02:13,895 Speaker 4: about bugs, and it was absolutely wonderful working with him. 48 00:02:13,895 --> 00:02:15,255 Speaker 3: I've known them for a long time. 49 00:02:15,175 --> 00:02:17,415 Speaker 4: But they wrote this book about the Incredible Insects of 50 00:02:17,535 --> 00:02:20,815 Speaker 4: Aldiroa and I think Jipapa's going to give me one 51 00:02:20,855 --> 00:02:22,815 Speaker 4: or two copies to give away next week or so. 52 00:02:22,975 --> 00:02:25,575 Speaker 4: It depends on when they arrive. But have a look 53 00:02:25,615 --> 00:02:30,055 Speaker 4: at it when you can. I'll I'll be happy to 54 00:02:30,095 --> 00:02:30,775 Speaker 4: give some away. 55 00:02:30,855 --> 00:02:34,215 Speaker 2: It's going to be good, just on that much excitement 56 00:02:35,095 --> 00:02:38,055 Speaker 2: with the local ecological group that I know where someone 57 00:02:38,095 --> 00:02:44,135 Speaker 2: has discovered a habitat of native skicks in South England 58 00:02:44,135 --> 00:02:46,015 Speaker 2: that they didn't really think was still around. 59 00:02:46,135 --> 00:02:51,295 Speaker 3: So yeah, I got a skink yesterday in Auckland as. 60 00:02:51,135 --> 00:02:54,815 Speaker 2: Well, or native or one of these I could. 61 00:02:54,895 --> 00:02:56,575 Speaker 3: I gave it to the I thought. 62 00:02:56,615 --> 00:02:59,495 Speaker 4: I thought it might have been one of those introduced 63 00:02:59,535 --> 00:03:02,735 Speaker 4: ones that they're rotter, actually, I think, but I couldn't 64 00:03:02,775 --> 00:03:05,015 Speaker 4: see because it was the weather wasn't that great all 65 00:03:05,015 --> 00:03:07,655 Speaker 4: the time. No there, the light wasn't that great, and 66 00:03:07,735 --> 00:03:09,495 Speaker 4: I had a thousand people around me. 67 00:03:09,575 --> 00:03:15,735 Speaker 2: Sos Okay, fair enough, right, let's get amongst it. If 68 00:03:15,775 --> 00:03:17,655 Speaker 2: you've got a question for Red, call us now on 69 00:03:17,935 --> 00:03:20,295 Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty eight Alistair. 70 00:03:20,415 --> 00:03:26,215 Speaker 5: Hello, good morning, Chap. I have a one short question 71 00:03:26,615 --> 00:03:27,415 Speaker 5: for Rude. 72 00:03:27,735 --> 00:03:32,975 Speaker 4: Yeah, but a very long answer. But this will become 73 00:03:33,015 --> 00:03:34,055 Speaker 4: a very long answer. 74 00:03:34,095 --> 00:03:34,855 Speaker 3: I'll bet you. 75 00:03:37,695 --> 00:03:42,615 Speaker 5: Do plants need more or extra water when they fly. 76 00:03:44,015 --> 00:03:46,775 Speaker 4: Not necessarily. No, it depends on what plants there are. 77 00:03:46,815 --> 00:03:49,455 Speaker 4: But if you have plants that are having a regular 78 00:03:49,535 --> 00:03:53,175 Speaker 4: watering session, then the flowering is not going to make 79 00:03:53,215 --> 00:03:57,095 Speaker 4: them need more. I reckon that absolutely not necessary now, 80 00:03:57,535 --> 00:04:00,055 Speaker 4: And you know what, Alistair here is a lovely did 81 00:04:00,095 --> 00:04:04,375 Speaker 4: you know most of our plants, especially house plants, but 82 00:04:04,415 --> 00:04:08,535 Speaker 4: also plants outside, if they die, it's usually the result 83 00:04:08,695 --> 00:04:10,295 Speaker 4: of over watering. 84 00:04:11,215 --> 00:04:18,095 Speaker 5: They're right, so b really, you bought some great books 85 00:04:18,175 --> 00:04:21,215 Speaker 5: out over the years. I've read some of them. 86 00:04:21,415 --> 00:04:24,455 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's lovely. It's lovely. 87 00:04:24,495 --> 00:04:26,175 Speaker 4: I wish I had time to write some more, but 88 00:04:26,255 --> 00:04:28,135 Speaker 4: I haven't, but it's great to do that. 89 00:04:28,375 --> 00:04:30,015 Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for your call, mate. 90 00:04:31,375 --> 00:04:34,215 Speaker 2: Much appreciated. And Dane, good morning to you. 91 00:04:34,775 --> 00:04:38,455 Speaker 6: Good morning. I have a question about the harlequin lady 92 00:04:38,535 --> 00:04:42,575 Speaker 6: birds or lady bugs. We've got them coming into the 93 00:04:42,615 --> 00:04:46,855 Speaker 6: house on the west side. But my husband went underneath 94 00:04:46,895 --> 00:04:49,135 Speaker 6: the house a couple of days ago and he said, 95 00:04:49,135 --> 00:04:51,775 Speaker 6: there's a lot. There's hundreds of hundreds and hundreds of them, 96 00:04:52,015 --> 00:04:56,935 Speaker 6: millions of them underneath the bathroom, on all the boards 97 00:04:56,975 --> 00:05:00,335 Speaker 6: under the house. They're not under the boards in the 98 00:05:00,335 --> 00:05:02,895 Speaker 6: bedrooms or anywhere else, but just under the bathroom and 99 00:05:03,335 --> 00:05:04,335 Speaker 6: a hibernating gig. 100 00:05:04,655 --> 00:05:06,655 Speaker 3: That's probably an hibernating gig. Yeah. 101 00:05:06,775 --> 00:05:08,575 Speaker 6: Did they come out of soil or they come out 102 00:05:08,575 --> 00:05:09,895 Speaker 6: of the tree or no. 103 00:05:10,055 --> 00:05:12,575 Speaker 4: They come from everywhere they've been, and they think, oh, 104 00:05:12,735 --> 00:05:16,375 Speaker 4: nice house. Is the Diana's place. Yeah, that's Diana's place. 105 00:05:16,495 --> 00:05:19,575 Speaker 4: Let's go there, guys. And then they have this wonderful 106 00:05:19,975 --> 00:05:23,855 Speaker 4: pheromone that actually that binds them together. So one goes 107 00:05:23,895 --> 00:05:27,775 Speaker 4: there and lays a trail. Lit's almost like a trail, 108 00:05:27,855 --> 00:05:30,175 Speaker 4: and that goes under your house. And then another one 109 00:05:30,215 --> 00:05:32,935 Speaker 4: comes it. Oh, I think George is there. Let's go there, 110 00:05:32,975 --> 00:05:35,095 Speaker 4: And in no time they all lay a trail. And 111 00:05:35,175 --> 00:05:37,255 Speaker 4: the more trail there is, the more smell there is 112 00:05:37,295 --> 00:05:40,575 Speaker 4: for attracting them. So they'll go away in spring. 113 00:05:40,615 --> 00:05:41,295 Speaker 3: Again. 114 00:05:41,455 --> 00:05:43,415 Speaker 6: Well, how can I kill them? Because they come inside 115 00:05:43,415 --> 00:05:44,055 Speaker 6: and they stink. 116 00:05:45,175 --> 00:05:47,535 Speaker 4: Yes, I've noticed a stink. Remember I told you that 117 00:05:47,615 --> 00:05:53,775 Speaker 4: it's their trail. How can you kill them? Look, honestly, 118 00:05:53,855 --> 00:05:55,575 Speaker 4: to be quite and the highlch to be quite. If 119 00:05:55,575 --> 00:05:59,375 Speaker 4: you've identified them correctly as eloquence, then they are introduced 120 00:05:59,375 --> 00:06:02,135 Speaker 4: creatures that we really don't need to be quite honest, 121 00:06:02,215 --> 00:06:05,655 Speaker 4: it's not a good one to have around. I think 122 00:06:05,695 --> 00:06:08,815 Speaker 4: you can use an aerosol spray I have. I've quite 123 00:06:08,855 --> 00:06:12,095 Speaker 4: often talked about a long lasting aerosol spray that you 124 00:06:12,175 --> 00:06:16,695 Speaker 4: can buy at Safe Works. Safe Works ends with an X, 125 00:06:16,735 --> 00:06:19,455 Speaker 4: by the way, is a company. It's a safety company. 126 00:06:19,695 --> 00:06:22,495 Speaker 4: But they also have aerosols that we use in aircraft 127 00:06:22,535 --> 00:06:25,775 Speaker 4: to stop creatures coming into the country when we use 128 00:06:25,815 --> 00:06:29,895 Speaker 4: that on aircraft. Now you can buy those those particular 129 00:06:29,935 --> 00:06:34,215 Speaker 4: aerosols from safe Works and they will work brilliantly against 130 00:06:34,255 --> 00:06:36,255 Speaker 4: these these lady bird beetles. 131 00:06:36,535 --> 00:06:39,935 Speaker 6: Okay, what about powder? We've got some wasp powder and 132 00:06:39,975 --> 00:06:40,935 Speaker 6: the shed. Would that work? 133 00:06:41,535 --> 00:06:45,735 Speaker 3: You could try? Yeah, it might work, might work. 134 00:06:45,775 --> 00:06:48,335 Speaker 4: But the best thing that lasts the longest is the 135 00:06:48,415 --> 00:06:51,375 Speaker 4: Safe Works residual aircraft spray. 136 00:06:51,455 --> 00:06:53,935 Speaker 6: It's an aterwer Okay, thank you, I'll give that a try. 137 00:06:54,175 --> 00:06:54,815 Speaker 3: Have a go there. 138 00:06:55,175 --> 00:07:01,335 Speaker 2: Good all you take care, little best and Michelle, very 139 00:07:01,335 --> 00:07:02,095 Speaker 2: good morning to you. 140 00:07:02,975 --> 00:07:06,775 Speaker 7: Good morning's me to speak to you. I've been a 141 00:07:06,815 --> 00:07:11,175 Speaker 7: Christian for rude. I've been pretty My mum's fetuo a 142 00:07:11,255 --> 00:07:15,295 Speaker 7: tree which got really out of control. It's one of 143 00:07:15,295 --> 00:07:19,175 Speaker 7: these supposed to be miniature, but it's a dwarf and 144 00:07:19,215 --> 00:07:22,575 Speaker 7: it's of the house above the roof, so it's not 145 00:07:22,815 --> 00:07:24,135 Speaker 7: very dwarf, but. 146 00:07:24,015 --> 00:07:27,335 Speaker 4: I don't think so. My dwarf Sean will stay. I'm 147 00:07:27,335 --> 00:07:31,335 Speaker 4: talking about thirty forty fifty high in the garden. I 148 00:07:31,375 --> 00:07:34,495 Speaker 4: think you might have had been sold something that is 149 00:07:34,535 --> 00:07:36,815 Speaker 4: not a dwarf on that. I don't believe that they 150 00:07:36,855 --> 00:07:37,095 Speaker 4: do that. 151 00:07:37,415 --> 00:07:40,935 Speaker 7: It must have been anyway. The last three years have 152 00:07:41,015 --> 00:07:44,375 Speaker 7: been pruning it and shaped it, and every year it's 153 00:07:44,415 --> 00:07:47,415 Speaker 7: been more and more productive. And that's fine, but here 154 00:07:47,495 --> 00:07:52,615 Speaker 7: we've been inundated with fruit. But with regard to the pruning, 155 00:07:53,215 --> 00:07:56,975 Speaker 7: it's made the tree grow so many shoots, but they're 156 00:07:57,015 --> 00:08:01,335 Speaker 7: not water shoots where everyone every branch that's had these 157 00:08:01,375 --> 00:08:05,215 Speaker 7: new shoots grow. They got two, three, four twiggy branches, 158 00:08:05,295 --> 00:08:07,535 Speaker 7: but they've all been pretty up to But I just 159 00:08:07,575 --> 00:08:10,775 Speaker 7: don't know where to start pruning now. They said you 160 00:08:10,815 --> 00:08:15,415 Speaker 7: should prune like about a quarter each time, and that's 161 00:08:15,415 --> 00:08:17,255 Speaker 7: what I've been doing over the last three years, and 162 00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:20,135 Speaker 7: this is the fourth year I've pruned. But I just 163 00:08:20,175 --> 00:08:22,255 Speaker 7: don't know where to start. Have you got the advice? 164 00:08:22,815 --> 00:08:25,815 Speaker 4: Yes, it's very easy, Michell, Michelle, it's very easy. 165 00:08:27,495 --> 00:08:33,775 Speaker 3: Fido. I used to grow fijoas as a hedge do 166 00:08:33,815 --> 00:08:34,455 Speaker 3: you know what I mean? 167 00:08:34,855 --> 00:08:38,095 Speaker 4: So I made it let's say two meters tall and 168 00:08:38,135 --> 00:08:40,175 Speaker 4: a meter wide and a meter thick, if you like. 169 00:08:40,295 --> 00:08:43,015 Speaker 4: And I had a headstreamer, and I put my glasses 170 00:08:43,015 --> 00:08:46,215 Speaker 4: on and I went like and I did not care. 171 00:08:47,335 --> 00:08:52,175 Speaker 4: These videos are almost impossible, well to yes, almost pretty much. 172 00:08:53,095 --> 00:08:56,775 Speaker 2: Yeah, if I can't kill it, you're fine, exactly. 173 00:08:56,895 --> 00:08:58,535 Speaker 3: There you go. That's Peter. There you are. 174 00:09:00,135 --> 00:09:04,655 Speaker 7: Another question. They've got the pets. Some of the fidos 175 00:09:04,775 --> 00:09:09,495 Speaker 7: have got like a a pale brown rot spot on them, 176 00:09:09,855 --> 00:09:13,135 Speaker 7: and it seems to be most commonly around near the 177 00:09:13,175 --> 00:09:15,935 Speaker 7: shoulder of the fruit. But these are the ones I 178 00:09:16,015 --> 00:09:19,895 Speaker 7: find on the ground, and I don't know is it 179 00:09:19,935 --> 00:09:23,335 Speaker 7: a virus or a fungus? And is that airborne or 180 00:09:23,415 --> 00:09:24,055 Speaker 7: soil borne? 181 00:09:24,855 --> 00:09:25,975 Speaker 5: Do any. 182 00:09:28,135 --> 00:09:29,295 Speaker 7: Fruit and get rid of them. 183 00:09:29,895 --> 00:09:32,775 Speaker 3: What you can do, you know, what you get. 184 00:09:32,775 --> 00:09:34,775 Speaker 4: What you can do very quickly is when these fruits 185 00:09:34,775 --> 00:09:37,935 Speaker 4: start to develop, you give them some funguside spray over 186 00:09:37,975 --> 00:09:38,335 Speaker 4: the top. 187 00:09:38,495 --> 00:09:39,375 Speaker 3: Boom. 188 00:09:39,895 --> 00:09:42,255 Speaker 7: Oh okay, yeah, it's likely to be. 189 00:09:42,255 --> 00:09:44,655 Speaker 3: A fungus, I'd say, so, yeah. 190 00:09:45,495 --> 00:09:47,015 Speaker 7: Okay, that's lovely. 191 00:09:47,015 --> 00:09:49,935 Speaker 2: Thank you very much and welcome go well all the 192 00:09:49,975 --> 00:09:52,575 Speaker 2: very bous Steve Michelle, you take care and a very 193 00:09:52,575 --> 00:09:53,215 Speaker 2: good morning to you. 194 00:09:53,295 --> 00:09:53,535 Speaker 3: Matt. 195 00:09:55,175 --> 00:09:57,095 Speaker 8: Good morning, gentlemen, it's a beautiful morning. 196 00:09:57,095 --> 00:09:58,775 Speaker 9: How are you good? 197 00:09:58,775 --> 00:09:59,255 Speaker 3: My friends? 198 00:10:00,495 --> 00:10:03,455 Speaker 8: Awesome? Now you might have trouble shooted by the problem 199 00:10:03,495 --> 00:10:07,655 Speaker 8: already with your stake whips advice. But I've just moved 200 00:10:07,655 --> 00:10:10,655 Speaker 8: into west Auckland and I think it's the weather's driven 201 00:10:10,695 --> 00:10:12,975 Speaker 8: in them. And there's this this small. 202 00:10:12,735 --> 00:10:17,495 Speaker 10: Mite up to about five mill which gets in the 203 00:10:17,575 --> 00:10:23,255 Speaker 10: house and it has this incredibly high piercing cricket like chirp. 204 00:10:23,575 --> 00:10:24,735 Speaker 8: Have you come across it. 205 00:10:27,935 --> 00:10:30,615 Speaker 3: Not with that description five mil. 206 00:10:31,935 --> 00:10:34,055 Speaker 8: Well, it's not. It wouldn't be half a centimeter. 207 00:10:34,175 --> 00:10:37,375 Speaker 3: I don't reckon, good grief. And it makes that noise, 208 00:10:37,575 --> 00:10:38,215 Speaker 3: and it makes a. 209 00:10:38,175 --> 00:10:43,815 Speaker 8: Noise so invariably, Yes, it comes in and it just 210 00:10:43,855 --> 00:10:45,415 Speaker 8: sits in the corner of the room. 211 00:10:45,295 --> 00:10:47,535 Speaker 10: Or down at the bottom of the. 212 00:10:48,455 --> 00:10:52,535 Speaker 8: Trim and the carpet, and it makes this piercing cricket 213 00:10:52,655 --> 00:10:58,255 Speaker 8: like chirp. Oh my and my girlfriend's. 214 00:10:57,735 --> 00:10:59,815 Speaker 10: Looked on on the. 215 00:10:59,535 --> 00:11:01,975 Speaker 8: Sort of Facebook page and people have identified it and 216 00:11:01,975 --> 00:11:04,815 Speaker 8: they've gone, oh anything, They're everywhere, But it just seems 217 00:11:04,855 --> 00:11:05,815 Speaker 8: it's only in the. 218 00:11:05,775 --> 00:11:09,455 Speaker 4: Sort of red Okay, Now I need to know what 219 00:11:09,575 --> 00:11:13,215 Speaker 4: did people People in quotation marks say it was. 220 00:11:14,455 --> 00:11:17,215 Speaker 10: Well, see, I thought it might have been some little 221 00:11:17,255 --> 00:11:18,815 Speaker 10: bug type cricket. 222 00:11:18,895 --> 00:11:21,175 Speaker 8: But the word that was vieused with mike. 223 00:11:22,375 --> 00:11:24,375 Speaker 4: No, it can't be a mite, not not really that 224 00:11:24,615 --> 00:11:27,655 Speaker 4: might that entomologists know. No, mikees are tiny things, not 225 00:11:27,695 --> 00:11:32,015 Speaker 4: even a millimeter in diameter. Okay, listen, listen, Matt. Honestly, 226 00:11:32,415 --> 00:11:34,855 Speaker 4: there is an app. Look, I'm not into twit book 227 00:11:34,895 --> 00:11:37,855 Speaker 4: and twatbook and all that sort of stuff, but there 228 00:11:37,935 --> 00:11:40,895 Speaker 4: is an app that actually does scientific work, not the 229 00:11:40,935 --> 00:11:43,015 Speaker 4: rubbish that you get from people that have no idea. 230 00:11:43,495 --> 00:11:49,815 Speaker 4: And it's called I Naturalist. One word, I Naturalist. Download it, 231 00:11:49,935 --> 00:11:52,935 Speaker 4: get to username and a password. You can do that easily, 232 00:11:53,055 --> 00:11:56,215 Speaker 4: cost nothing, and within a couple of minutes you can 233 00:11:56,295 --> 00:12:00,575 Speaker 4: start taking a good photo off that particular creature. Put 234 00:12:00,575 --> 00:12:03,135 Speaker 4: it on A Naturalist, as sharp and as close as 235 00:12:03,175 --> 00:12:07,215 Speaker 4: you can, and within ten seconds you will have an identity. 236 00:12:09,535 --> 00:12:11,095 Speaker 8: Awesome because you googled it. 237 00:12:12,335 --> 00:12:14,095 Speaker 4: Yeah, you can google that and then see where it 238 00:12:14,135 --> 00:12:15,495 Speaker 4: came from and all that sort of stuff. 239 00:12:17,535 --> 00:12:19,455 Speaker 8: I was living remotely and she said, this thing is 240 00:12:19,455 --> 00:12:20,815 Speaker 8: waking me up. It's in the room. 241 00:12:20,855 --> 00:12:25,375 Speaker 11: I could hear it, and I was lucky enough she 242 00:12:25,855 --> 00:12:28,455 Speaker 11: aes she recorded it, and then I was lucky enough 243 00:12:28,935 --> 00:12:31,175 Speaker 11: to be there and I heard this thing and I 244 00:12:31,215 --> 00:12:36,455 Speaker 11: actually just killed it. 245 00:12:38,335 --> 00:12:44,575 Speaker 3: Mad, you're the hero, just like I love it. 246 00:12:45,495 --> 00:12:47,815 Speaker 4: No, I'm quite intrigued because I used to live in 247 00:12:47,855 --> 00:12:49,815 Speaker 4: west Ackland, and I'm not sure what you're talking about, 248 00:12:49,855 --> 00:12:50,735 Speaker 4: so it could be. 249 00:12:50,695 --> 00:12:57,295 Speaker 3: Something that's new. Well I naturally knows. Yeah, right, there 250 00:12:57,335 --> 00:12:57,655 Speaker 3: you go. 251 00:12:58,855 --> 00:13:04,535 Speaker 2: Great, it's awesome. That's awesome, all the very bissy. It's 252 00:13:04,575 --> 00:13:10,255 Speaker 2: obviously got amazing acoust sick performance. Then out of five millimeters, 253 00:13:10,495 --> 00:13:12,375 Speaker 2: which happens to be exactly the same as half a 254 00:13:12,415 --> 00:13:18,335 Speaker 2: centimeter that it creates a noise that you wake you up. 255 00:13:18,375 --> 00:13:20,255 Speaker 2: Oh look, I can laugh, but it's only because I 256 00:13:20,335 --> 00:13:23,015 Speaker 2: don't have them in my bedroom. So there you go. Yeah, 257 00:13:23,415 --> 00:13:26,415 Speaker 2: oh no, apparently they're in Mount Eden as well. A 258 00:13:26,535 --> 00:13:30,095 Speaker 2: really shrill whistle is coming in from the text. 259 00:13:30,495 --> 00:13:31,535 Speaker 3: Oh good, I'd love. 260 00:13:31,415 --> 00:13:33,215 Speaker 2: To This is a mystery worth solving. 261 00:13:33,415 --> 00:13:34,615 Speaker 3: Let me know, guys, let me know. 262 00:13:34,855 --> 00:13:36,935 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, how we're going to take a short break. 263 00:13:37,015 --> 00:13:38,735 Speaker 2: If you've got a question for it, call us now 264 00:13:38,935 --> 00:13:41,375 Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty You and new Stork seedp. 265 00:13:41,455 --> 00:13:43,855 Speaker 2: We've got a couple of calls and Karen, good morning 266 00:13:43,855 --> 00:13:44,175 Speaker 2: to you. 267 00:13:45,335 --> 00:13:50,015 Speaker 9: Good morning. I have a question for Rude. I have 268 00:13:50,095 --> 00:13:54,815 Speaker 9: a camellia hatch and half of it believes are going 269 00:13:54,895 --> 00:14:00,575 Speaker 9: like a pale pale green and looks like quite dusky. 270 00:14:01,455 --> 00:14:06,575 Speaker 3: M yellowing, yellowing and greening there, greening goes like in 271 00:14:06,655 --> 00:14:07,735 Speaker 3: color is then what it is? 272 00:14:08,295 --> 00:14:09,135 Speaker 12: Yeah? 273 00:14:09,255 --> 00:14:10,175 Speaker 3: Do you see that the. 274 00:14:10,175 --> 00:14:15,895 Speaker 4: Veins themselves are still green? The veins on the leaves, 275 00:14:15,935 --> 00:14:16,535 Speaker 4: you know what I mean? 276 00:14:17,935 --> 00:14:21,055 Speaker 9: Yeah, I have a leaf in front of me. It's 277 00:14:21,215 --> 00:14:26,335 Speaker 9: very very pale on the one side and the side. Yeah, 278 00:14:26,415 --> 00:14:29,855 Speaker 9: it kind of looks like it's got a mold or something. 279 00:14:30,775 --> 00:14:34,255 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a So there's a number of things. I think. 280 00:14:34,335 --> 00:14:36,335 Speaker 4: First of all, the color is quite important because there 281 00:14:36,415 --> 00:14:40,415 Speaker 4: might be a deficiency of some material that it needs 282 00:14:40,495 --> 00:14:44,215 Speaker 4: to take in a nutrient if you like, it could 283 00:14:44,255 --> 00:14:47,335 Speaker 4: be it could be it could be nitrogen, but could 284 00:14:47,335 --> 00:14:52,735 Speaker 4: also be magnesium. So do you fertilize this plant every 285 00:14:52,775 --> 00:14:53,255 Speaker 4: now and then? 286 00:14:54,535 --> 00:14:54,735 Speaker 5: Yeah? 287 00:14:54,735 --> 00:14:57,895 Speaker 9: I use some camelia food. 288 00:14:58,295 --> 00:15:03,295 Speaker 4: You know, Well, magnesium is not something that is always 289 00:15:03,295 --> 00:15:07,495 Speaker 4: in every fertilizer that you buy. I suggest you get 290 00:15:07,535 --> 00:15:10,375 Speaker 4: a little bit of trace elements. 291 00:15:10,975 --> 00:15:11,575 Speaker 3: They call it. 292 00:15:12,215 --> 00:15:15,975 Speaker 4: Trace elements is the small amounts that plants sometimes need, 293 00:15:16,335 --> 00:15:18,255 Speaker 4: and if they don't get it, they can do strange 294 00:15:18,255 --> 00:15:20,215 Speaker 4: things like what you describe. 295 00:15:21,095 --> 00:15:24,095 Speaker 9: And I have another question. I have a I call 296 00:15:24,135 --> 00:15:25,775 Speaker 9: it a red red robin hedge. 297 00:15:25,775 --> 00:15:29,935 Speaker 3: That the red robin. Yeah, I know the plant, yeah right. 298 00:15:30,015 --> 00:15:34,295 Speaker 9: Red in the in the summer, all the leaves fell 299 00:15:34,295 --> 00:15:38,255 Speaker 9: off it, and some of the plants in the hedge 300 00:15:38,775 --> 00:15:40,655 Speaker 9: died and the leaves never came back. 301 00:15:42,015 --> 00:15:44,855 Speaker 3: Once they've fallen. That's it that. 302 00:15:46,655 --> 00:15:52,055 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And and the plant is still looking pretty deadish. 303 00:15:52,855 --> 00:15:55,255 Speaker 9: Well, it's a hedge. So two of the plants and 304 00:15:55,335 --> 00:16:00,375 Speaker 9: the hedge they've they've gone in the rest of it going. 305 00:16:00,855 --> 00:16:03,255 Speaker 4: Well, no, you might that might not, that might not 306 00:16:03,335 --> 00:16:06,935 Speaker 4: be that the tricky in the recent rain that you had, 307 00:16:06,975 --> 00:16:09,455 Speaker 4: did you think that the where the plants are where 308 00:16:09,455 --> 00:16:11,815 Speaker 4: the dead plants. I know that the soil was quite 309 00:16:11,815 --> 00:16:13,775 Speaker 4: wet or wetter than elsewhere. 310 00:16:18,175 --> 00:16:20,975 Speaker 9: It could be because I have another hedge like the 311 00:16:20,975 --> 00:16:23,255 Speaker 9: other side of the field, that some of the plants 312 00:16:23,295 --> 00:16:26,535 Speaker 9: in that edge where it's really wet of die. 313 00:16:26,815 --> 00:16:31,095 Speaker 4: Yeah it goes so yeah, yes, And that can sometimes 314 00:16:31,135 --> 00:16:34,175 Speaker 4: be just the enormous incredible rain we had here was 315 00:16:34,255 --> 00:16:38,015 Speaker 4: just fabulous. Same thing people will have trouble with their 316 00:16:38,415 --> 00:16:42,175 Speaker 4: with their plants at some stage. That's usually a root rot, 317 00:16:42,415 --> 00:16:45,095 Speaker 4: one of the root rot species of fungal species, and 318 00:16:45,135 --> 00:16:47,455 Speaker 4: there is very little you can do about it. What 319 00:16:47,535 --> 00:16:51,055 Speaker 4: you can't do is plant another red robin in the 320 00:16:51,095 --> 00:16:55,055 Speaker 4: same spot, because they will go within six months, a guarantee. 321 00:16:56,655 --> 00:16:59,015 Speaker 9: Okay, I'll just have a nice walkway through the hedge. 322 00:17:01,455 --> 00:17:06,535 Speaker 3: Yeah, or get something totally different. Yeah. Good, all the 323 00:17:06,575 --> 00:17:07,255 Speaker 3: very best you can. 324 00:17:07,815 --> 00:17:10,935 Speaker 2: Thank you very much for the call, Margaret, very good morning. 325 00:17:12,015 --> 00:17:16,855 Speaker 12: Good morning. I'm reing from North Chicago, and in our 326 00:17:16,935 --> 00:17:19,975 Speaker 12: church we have clusterflies and a lot of other people 327 00:17:20,055 --> 00:17:23,335 Speaker 12: are having custoflies as well. Sometime back, I was in 328 00:17:23,415 --> 00:17:26,255 Speaker 12: Mike firteen and there was a traveler and she told 329 00:17:26,295 --> 00:17:29,375 Speaker 12: me about how the clusterflies had arrived in New Zealand 330 00:17:29,455 --> 00:17:32,135 Speaker 12: on a ship at Port Charmers and have made their 331 00:17:32,175 --> 00:17:36,655 Speaker 12: way around. She gave me the name of a prill 332 00:17:36,735 --> 00:17:39,535 Speaker 12: that you could put around the ground because they sort 333 00:17:39,535 --> 00:17:42,535 Speaker 12: of hatch out of the ground. But I can't remember, 334 00:17:42,815 --> 00:17:46,175 Speaker 12: and I know that the places don't seem to have 335 00:17:46,215 --> 00:17:49,935 Speaker 12: that particular breed anymore. But I'm just wondering what kind 336 00:17:49,935 --> 00:17:52,735 Speaker 12: of prill you would recommend to put around in the 337 00:17:53,495 --> 00:17:55,375 Speaker 12: spread around on the grass around the church. 338 00:17:56,415 --> 00:17:59,575 Speaker 4: It's the if you're thinking about a prill that actually 339 00:18:00,015 --> 00:18:04,895 Speaker 4: reduces pests in lawns and let's say turf. 340 00:18:05,055 --> 00:18:07,135 Speaker 3: You know, if you go to in green and all 341 00:18:07,135 --> 00:18:07,575 Speaker 3: that sort. 342 00:18:07,455 --> 00:18:11,895 Speaker 4: Of stuff, there are materials that have the following active 343 00:18:12,295 --> 00:18:16,935 Speaker 4: ingredient asiy print. I'm going to spell that for you 344 00:18:17,015 --> 00:18:19,215 Speaker 4: and then you can think about it. 345 00:18:19,295 --> 00:18:28,615 Speaker 3: Ace yeah, L E P L E p R y N. 346 00:18:30,015 --> 00:18:30,535 Speaker 5: Y N. 347 00:18:31,495 --> 00:18:33,535 Speaker 4: I am not saying that's going to work, but that 348 00:18:33,655 --> 00:18:37,495 Speaker 4: is something that works well in soils, okay. 349 00:18:37,615 --> 00:18:39,615 Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh and by the way, the clusterfly. 350 00:18:39,975 --> 00:18:42,655 Speaker 4: The clusterfly came into New Zealand via the north shore 351 00:18:42,695 --> 00:18:46,895 Speaker 4: of Auckland because I was the one who found them. 352 00:18:47,255 --> 00:18:51,615 Speaker 12: Okay, so they obviously had another another entry point, didn't 353 00:18:51,655 --> 00:18:52,495 Speaker 12: they know. 354 00:18:52,695 --> 00:18:55,895 Speaker 4: They started in the north and they just went south 355 00:18:55,935 --> 00:18:57,455 Speaker 4: in the end. And they love and they love to 356 00:18:57,495 --> 00:18:58,695 Speaker 4: live in cooler climates. 357 00:18:58,775 --> 00:18:58,975 Speaker 7: Yeah. 358 00:18:59,255 --> 00:19:04,815 Speaker 3: They came from North America or North Europe. Yeah, okay, 359 00:19:04,935 --> 00:19:05,255 Speaker 3: they go. 360 00:19:05,215 --> 00:19:07,855 Speaker 12: To very high places, very difficult to get down. 361 00:19:08,895 --> 00:19:12,495 Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, good luck Margaret, and thank you very 362 00:19:12,575 --> 00:19:16,055 Speaker 2: much for you call. Have a great day, thank you. 363 00:19:16,455 --> 00:19:20,655 Speaker 2: And yes, I think well like all of us were, well, yeah, 364 00:19:20,935 --> 00:19:24,855 Speaker 2: Dutch here, it's at your Dutch reflection and for Europeans marks, 365 00:19:24,855 --> 00:19:27,455 Speaker 2: it's a significant day. Isn't eighty years since the Second 366 00:19:27,455 --> 00:19:27,855 Speaker 2: World War? 367 00:19:28,295 --> 00:19:29,575 Speaker 3: Exactly? It's a big time. 368 00:19:30,015 --> 00:19:32,415 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. Having the memorial in the Rose 369 00:19:32,455 --> 00:19:35,815 Speaker 2: Gardens in Parnell is a lovely place to have the memorial. 370 00:19:36,575 --> 00:19:39,175 Speaker 3: So yeah, and. 371 00:19:39,095 --> 00:19:42,175 Speaker 2: You take care all the very best and thank you 372 00:19:42,255 --> 00:19:45,935 Speaker 2: very much for your company this morning. I am going 373 00:19:45,975 --> 00:19:49,615 Speaker 2: to be in Wellington on Saturday at the Better Home 374 00:19:49,615 --> 00:19:52,255 Speaker 2: and Living show that's on at the Sky Stadium in Wellington. 375 00:19:52,295 --> 00:19:54,495 Speaker 2: I'll be speaking at about twelve o'clock. If you're around, 376 00:19:54,855 --> 00:19:56,895 Speaker 2: say hi, look forward seeing it. I might see at 377 00:19:56,895 --> 00:19:59,655 Speaker 2: the show there. And if you have a good week 378 00:19:59,695 --> 00:20:01,935 Speaker 2: this week. Yeah, I'm off to the Dutch memorial at 379 00:20:02,015 --> 00:20:04,775 Speaker 2: two o'clock today in the Parnell Rose Gardens. Take care, 380 00:20:04,815 --> 00:20:05,375 Speaker 2: have a great week. 381 00:20:06,495 --> 00:20:08,855 Speaker 3: I'm crazy like I'm the only 382 00:20:11,495 --> 00:20:14,415 Speaker 1: For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen 383 00:20:14,535 --> 00:20:17,295 Speaker 1: live to News Talks at b on Sunday mornings from six, 384 00:20:17,655 --> 00:20:19,695 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.