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  • From: "Doreen Howard" <doreenh@ticon.net>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] borers:peach
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:55:30 -0500

One thing to remember about paradichlorobenzene is that a significant
portion of the population is either allergic to it or sensitive to it. I
can walk down a store aisle where the stuff is wrapped in plastic and/or
cellophane and get an immediate reaction--my eyes swell shut. So if you
have allergic people in your family, I wouldn't use the stuff as it migrates
easily, and if it doesn't cause an outright reaction, it will add to the
overload of allergens affecting the person.
Doreen Howard

----- Original Message -----
From: <Mauch1@aol.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 9:28 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] borers:peach


> If you do use mothballs, remember that there are two kinds,
> napthlene(sp?) and paradichlorobenzene. It's the
> paradichlorobenzene ones you want. They also should be
> flakes, and not "balls". I've also read elsewhere that the soil
> you mound over the flakes has to be "disposed" of after you
> remove it.
>
> I found these web sites by searching on Google by search on
> paradichlorobenzene (For first site) and then
> paradichlorobenzene and fruit for the rest:
>
> EPA:
> http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwh/t-voc/p-dichlo.html
>
> Nebraska Extension:
> http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/insects/g292.htm
>
> University of Arkansas:
> http://www.uaex.edu/Other_Areas/publications/HTML/FSA-7503.asp
>
> Colorado Extension:
> http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05566.html
>
>

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