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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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Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples
, (continued)
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Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
derry&bill, 09/10/2003
- RE: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples, Ed Fackler, 09/10/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
list, 09/10/2003
- RE: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples, Ed Fackler, 09/11/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
Sam Franc, 09/08/2003
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RE: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
Mark Lee, 09/08/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
Sam Franc, 09/08/2003
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[NAFEX] climbing cutworms,
derry&bill, 09/08/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] climbing cutworms,
Sam Franc, 09/08/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] climbing cutworms, derry&bill, 09/09/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] climbing cutworms, Bill Russell, 09/09/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] climbing cutworms,
Sam Franc, 09/08/2003
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RE: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
Mark Lee, 09/09/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples, Sam Franc, 09/09/2003
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[NAFEX] climbing cutworms,
derry&bill, 09/08/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
Sam Franc, 09/08/2003
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RE: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
Mark Lee, 09/08/2003
- [NAFEX] Interstem Apples, Kevin Bradley, 09/08/2003
- [NAFEX] Interstem Apples, Kevin Bradley, 09/09/2003
-
[NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
Kevin Bradley, 09/11/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples, list, 09/11/2003
-
[NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
Kevin Bradley, 09/13/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples, Brian Pearson, 09/14/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Interstem Apples,
derry&bill, 09/10/2003
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