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- From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
- To: sue roseman <swissy AT socket.net>, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:30:12 -0400
On Jun 21, 2009, at 9:40 PM, sue roseman wrote:
<x-tad-smaller>Hello from very hot wet MO,</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller>I am wondering if there is any NEW organic pesticide that works on grasshoppers. I have 1,000's of the little buggers that are happily munching their way thru everything in sight. </x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller>I have already tried the NO-LO bait stuff and it is a big waste of my money. I have tried it for years now and still have lots and lots of them. So I am wondering if thru my browsing of catalogs I have missed a new alternative . I am ready to throw in the towel with all the rain and hail and now this! However 20 yrs of growing I will probably just use it to cry in!</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller>Sue</x-tad-smaller>
<x-tad-smaller>Zone 5</x-tad-smaller>
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Don't know if the below will be any help; but maybe it will give you some ideas. I've never had a significant grasshopper problem (maybe I should add the word "yet") though I certainly have lots of "weedy, undisturbed areas"; but I also have a high population of assorted natural predators, so maybe that's why; or maybe it's the local weather.
Is your "NO-LO" the "nosema locustae" they're talking about? -- They do also mention a fungal control and a lot of cultural controls.
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/grasshopper.html
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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[Market-farming] grasshoppers,
sue roseman, 06/22/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers,
mongotrout, 06/22/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers,
Kate Halstead, 06/22/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers,
mongotrout, 06/22/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers, maury sheets, 06/22/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers,
Marie Kamphefner, 06/22/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers, Road's End Farm, 06/22/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers,
mongotrout, 06/22/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers,
Kate Halstead, 06/22/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers, Road's End Farm, 06/22/2009
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers, jay sleichter, 06/22/2009
- [Market-farming] grasshoppers, sue roseman, 06/24/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers,
mongotrout, 06/22/2009
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