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[Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net>]

I don't have direct experience with this but if you follow the urls they mention that "Surround" 
impregnated footies protect against codding moths.  Check out this url for the comments and 
directions on how to do it.

<http://www.homeorchardsociety.org/article/50>

"I experimented with Surround® saturated nylon footies on apple fruits. Those apples with Surround® 
soaked footies were pest free, those with plain footies had codling moth but no apple maggot, those 
apple fruits with no protection had both codling moth and apple maggot (100%). The Surround 
protected fruits seemed to be free of earwig damage, unlike the other test fruits. The year before I 
had experimented with other nylon footie combinations, but I was unable to control the codling moth 
infestation until I tried the Kaolin treatment."

(Note that Surround is Kaolin clay which is non toxic.  Some people actually eat Kaolin for 
digestive health...)

Sounds like a little bit of messing around to soak and dry the footies with Surround, but nothing 
compared to actually bagging the fruit...

Dan



On 2/25/2012 10:28 AM, Naomi Counides wrote:
> I have tried the fruit footies.  On apples in Idaho they are ineffective.
> The codding moths get right through them.
> Naomi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Nave
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:15 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: [nafex] Another "bag" for bagging fruit
>
> On another list a person mentioned another method for bagging fruit which
> might interest some.
> Apparently, some are using disposable nylon footies, or foot sox.  I have
> never used them but they seem like they might be cost effective and easy to
> use.  Looks like quantity of 144 sox for $5, which comes to about 3.5 cents
> per sock.
>
> "I have been putting ziplock bags on my apples the last two years to
> eliminate spraying the trees and the fruit. I recently found a better bag to
> use to for covering the apples. Information on the method can be found at
> this link: http://www.homeorchardsociety.org/fruitsoxs.  I found a source
> for the footies at this link:
> https://www.storesupply.com/search.aspx?query=footies. "
>
> Dan
> __________________