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  • From: "Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] climbing cutworms
  • Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:27:12 -0400

Climing cutworms do a number on the new growth of my gooseberry plants every
spring. Snip off the tops. If I scatter wood ashes around the base of the
bushes, it discourages them.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "derry&bill" <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 10:00 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] climbing cutworms


> Sam,
>
> It is possible that the pest that bites a hole in your apple is a climbing
> cutworm. They usually bite on the 'top' (i.e. stem end) or the sides.
Once
> they've made a hole, the earwigs and sowbugs and lady bugs and wasps all
> move in to eat the flesh.
> The cutworms come out of the soil late at night, climb up the tree, bite
the
> hole and eat a bit, and go down into the soil during the daytime. That's
> why you never see them.
>
> Derry
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Bill Chase & Derry Walsh
> Aldergrove, B.C., Canada
> phone/fax (604) 856-9316
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> > Worst problem is something bites a hole and sow bugs get in and start
> > eating more.
> > Sam
>
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