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[Market-farming] Hornet and Wasp damage to Asian pears
- From: Marlin Burkholder <burkholders AT glenecofarm.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] Hornet and Wasp damage to Asian pears
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:52:51 -0400
Title: Hornet and Wasp damage to Asian pears
This afternoon I went out to pick Asian pears and encountered real disaster. We usually have about 10% damage from hornets and wasps biting or stinging the ripening fruit and leaving holes eaten into the fruit or rot spots around the bitten areas. I was thinking of spraying the trees with Surround a week or two before ripening to try to discourage them but was busy that week and didn’t get it done. When I went to picking I found well over 50% ruined fruit and that combined with Cedar-Apple rust damage (despite my efforts to keep the trees sprayed for that problem this summer), we have less than 25% marketable fruit and less than perfect at that. I was a pretty discouraged puppy when I came in this evening. We are in the middle of a late summer drought which makes me to suspect as a reason for the increased hornet and wasp damage. Does anyone have an effective strategy for dealing with these boogers?
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[Market-farming] Hornet and Wasp damage to Asian pears,
Marlin Burkholder, 09/01/2015
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Re: [Market-farming] Hornet and Wasp damage to Asian pears,
Richard Stewart, 09/02/2015
- Re: [Market-farming] Hornet and Wasp damage to Asian pears, Marlin Burkholder, 09/03/2015
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Re: [Market-farming] Hornet and Wasp damage to Asian pears,
Richard Stewart, 09/02/2015
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