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["Richard Moyer" <ramoyer@gmail.com>]

Bill,

We use January special red Christmas tree balls as our sticky spheres, covered in Tangletrap.

Most entrapped are flies, including the apple maggot adult, with a prominent, black zigzag on its otherwise clear wing.  We had achieved complete control with one sphere per apple tree, 10-12 trees total for 8 or so years.  Until our Pristine tree started bearing; it's a maggot magnet, but still the only cultivar thus damaged. 

An occasional lacewing is caught on the spheres. 

No honeybees in my recollection, though we do have a hive about 100 feet away.

 

Richard Moyer

East TN, SW VA

Passionfruit smoothies tonight.