gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: gardenwriters-on-gardening
List archive
- From: ApisMNO@aol.com
- To: gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [gwl-g] aphids
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 16:03:19 EDT
Nancy, almost all of the time when someone without at least Baccalaureate
level training or several decades of experience scouting for arthropods that
parasitize plants, it means a large and damaging population.
Therefore, you should use any kind of soap or even ordinary liquid hand
detergent for dishes, or alcohol on a swab or cotton ball. I rarely feel
that any
thing that is going to affect other insects is justified in the home
landscape. Large monocultures are a different story. Even if you don't wipe
out every
critter that worries you, there will be fewer to reproduce and natural
controls are not much bothered at all. We do have people who perform "plant
health
care", but they are a little bit more murderous than physicians. But
thinking
about the consequences of one's actions is a subsection of the "golden rule".
Barbara E. Emeneau
-
Re: [gwl-g] aphids,
Hamptongar, 04/17/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
-
Re: [gwl-g] aphids,
ApisMNO, 04/18/2004
- Re: [gwl-g] aphids, Nancy Stedman, 04/19/2004
-
Re: [gwl-g] aphids,
fran gustman, 04/18/2004
- RE: [gwl-g] aphids, maryann whitman, 04/18/2004
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.