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["Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

Latex paint can deter peach trunk borer?  This is hard to believe given all the more arduous methods I've heard over the years to control this difficult pest (moth balls, fine screen etc.).  That also goes for paint vole control.  I can't see why the commercial growers out here would go to all the trouble and expense of placing bait under shingles and additionally wrapping their youngest trees with plastic guards if all they had to do was swab the base with some white paint. 

 

A little squirt of Lorsban does wonders for borer control but it is now restricted. 

 

So what gives?  Is anyone out there aware of any research about this phenominal latex paint efficacy?