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["del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>]

        Michael, thanks for the lead to such a fine article and up close and 
personal photos. I had no idea that some lived only under the soil line,  
That some are over 3"long.  That ideally one not have wild hawthorn within 
300 yards!   And  the idea of using old logs to attract and then burn seemed 
good.  I'd worry that coating a pile of logs with tanglefoot would kill just 
too many beneficials before  we could even get acquainted. Thanks again, 
learned a bunch.    Mn. Del


>From: "Michael Phillips" <mphil@together.net>
>Reply-To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [nafex] Round-headed Appletree Borer
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 06:52:09 -0500
>
>Peach borers are moths - apple borers are beetles. One excellent site to
>dive deep into borer nuance comes from Art Agnello who puts out an 
>excellent
>IPM newsletter for Cornell. Check out this issue:
>http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/scafolds/2000/7.24_insects.html
>
>I've always been amazed to have never seen an adult borer though I've dealt
>ruthlessly with hundreds of the larvae when probing their tunnels. Window
>screening works best to protect young trees. The bottom edge needs to be
>buried an inch or two in the soil. The top is folded/tucked rather snug
>around the girth of a tender treeling and held that way with regular
>paper-type staples. I make it a spring-task to go along to each tree to
>loosen overly-tight screening (due to the previous year's growth) and 
>staple
>it snugly anew. I'm also finding a very thick coat of kaolin clay applied 
>to
>the bottom foot of more mature trees and dribbled thickly against the soil
>line seems to serve well. This coating is applied in late June and renewed 
>a
>month later . . . but again, the window screen is a surer method and
>protects against vole damage. Adult borers fly to each tree and crawl down
>the trunk to get to the preferred egg-laying site at soil line. Which is 
>why
>many conventional insecticides help reduce if not eliminate an infestation.
>Eggs are laid between early July through August here in far northern New
>Hampshire.
>
>Michael Phillips
>Heartsong Farm Healing Herbs
>Lost Nation Orchard
>RFD 1  Box 275
>Groveton, NH 03582
>(603) 636-2286
>mphil@together.net

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