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- From: "Raby, Brian {20-4~Indianapolis}" <BRIAN.RABY@ROCHE.COM>
- To: "'nafex@yahoogroups.com'" <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: RE: [nafex] tent catapillars
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:26:59 -0400
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
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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-
[nafex] tent catapillars,
del stubbs, 05/31/2001
- Re: [nafex] tent catapillars, H.Dessureault, 05/31/2001
- Re: [nafex] tent catapillars, Ginda Fisher, 05/31/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [nafex] tent catapillars, Doreen Howard, 05/31/2001
- RE: [nafex] tent catapillars, Raby, Brian {20-4~Indianapolis}, 05/31/2001
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