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  • From: "Chuck" <Mongotrout AT mchsi.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: June bugs
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:12:34 -0500

Kevin,

They are feeding on the tassels, silks and the ears also. Sometimes I find
20 or more on one ear. Fortunately when that happens I can destroy a whole
bunch at one time. The damage that just one or two can do to one ear is
unbelievable.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayapple Farm and Gardens" <mayapplefarm AT yahoo.com>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 11:50 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] Re: June bugs


> Chuck,
>
> What you are describing are typical of what are
> commonly called June bugs. The are actually a type of
> scarab beetle, the family which includes dung beetles,
> rose chafers, Japanese beetles, and the gigantic
> Eastern Hercules Beetle. June bug larvae are typical
> of scarab larvae, the white, C-shaped grub found
> eating roots of vegetation or found in rotting wood
> (and compost on occasion). The larvae of June bugs
> are sod root feeders, I believe.
>
> Cutworms are not the larvae of beetles, but are larvae
> of certain moths. They don't live in compost, but are
> typically pests of transplants in sod ground that was
> not turned in sufficient time.
>
> Around here June bugs are very minor pests if at all.
> I did run across quite a few feeding on the same wild
> blackberries I was picking this morning. It seems
> they don't last very long, which is small comfort for
> you right now. Are they actually eating the ear, or
> feeding on the silks?
>
> Kevin
>
>
> =====
> Krystyna L. Prochocki
> Kevin L. Strohmeier
> May Apple Farm and Gardens
> 4020 N. Grandview Church Rd.
> Big Spring, KY 40175
> 270/828-4953
> mayapplefarm AT yahoo.com
>
>
>
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