Market Farming

["Coylie Ries" <sassyniowa AT iowatelecom.net>]

Will DE work on corn rootworm beetles?  I have been applying the self 
rising flour and I think it has made a dent in the population but I 
would really like to clean them out before they lay eggs for the winter.
I was set to deal with the grasshoppers, but the rootworm beetles did 
much more devestation to my main two crops, dahlias and gladiolias.

Coylie, Central Iowa


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "roxann" <roxann AT ancientearthwisdom.com>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 4:36 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] blister beetle update


> the blister beetles have not returned to my garden since my one 
> application of DE with pyrethrins. I have also been told that 
> self-rising flour will also kill them, so if I ever see them again, I 
> will try that. I also read that lightening bugs will eat blister 
> beetle larvae, and I do have lots of those, but not as many right now 
> as earlier during the year.
>
> Roxann, NW AR
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