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  • From: fran gustman <fgustman@juno.com>
  • To: gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] aphids
  • Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:34:53 -0400

On my roses, I just smoosh aphids by hand. There is usually a very large
first flush and then, after the smooshing, there are hardly any until
much later in the season - at which time, I repeat the process.

Fran

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 16:03:19 EDT ApisMNO@aol.com writes:
> 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
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Fran Gustman, fgustman@juno.com
Boston, MA, Zone 6
Editor, HortResources Newsletter, www.hortresources.org
Editor, Holly Society Journal, www.hollysocam.org




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