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["Raby, Brian {20-4~Indianapolis}" <BRIAN.RABY@ROCHE.COM>]

All,

 

I don't know if this is related but the Indianapolis Star wrote an article that came out yesterday talking about an invasion of armyworm, denuding pastures and lawns as they move.  Traps were capturing 600 moths in a week instead of the usual 10 to 30.   The article is found at:  http://www.starnews.com/print/articles/worm30.html

 

I have found a bit of munching on the terminal ends of my apple trees.  I can't seem to locate the source of the problem.   May have to look a little closer to dusk.

 

Brian

Sheridan, IN

 

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: del stubbs [mailto:pinewoodel@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:06 PM
To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [nafex] tent catapillars

> Areas of Northern Minnesota are heavily infested now. 
>   Are they elsewhere?
> It's a cyclic event, some say 15 years. Healthy trees 
>   are defoliated, then 
> releaf in July 'like nothing happened', I hear.
> In 
>   our local area we've just started seeing a handful here and there in the 
>   
> woods.  While mowing the fledgling apple orchard today i noticed a 3 
>   year 
> old sweet sixteen with chewed leaves, but no insects obvious. Then my 
>   wife 
> spotted them on the chicken wire enclosure. Perhaps sunning 
>   themselves after 
> this mornings rain?   So we inspected all 200 
>   trees, some are this years 
> grafts-just showing first leaf. One got it bad, 
>   there being so little growth 
> to take the feeding.
> It suprised me to see 
>   so many apples with just one catapillar per plant, I 
> thought they we're 
>   typically only in the great bunches.
> So it's inspections every day till 
>   they give up.
> Much discussion of them on the local radio, and so far the 
>   concensus is Dawn 
> detergent spray mix, or aluminum foil trunk wrap with 
>   grease.
> Mn. 
>   Del
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