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["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello,

I have a question for those with gravel laneways next to your orchards.

My inlaws have a 1/2 mile laneway into the farm buildings.  It is a gravel  
road.  Every time a vehicle passes on the laneway a cloud of dust is  
throuwn into the air.  With prevailing winds, it always dusts the same  
side of the road.

I have often thought that is how Kayolin clay was found to supress  
insects.  A simple clay road, upwind of an orchard.

My question is...  If you had an orchard upwind of a dirt road, that had a  
component of Kayolin clay, and the orchard got dusted everytime a vehicle  
passed, would you achieve a degree of "passive" insect protection?

Does the dust of any dirt road offer a dust barrier to insects?

Just an idea poking around inside my head....

Later,
Tom
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