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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [nafex] European Apple Sawfly
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:13:35 -0400

Thanks for the reply Deb. I thought you were the only reply. Then I noticed that I had been dropped from the group and I had to sign up again. I then checked the archives and found that Jim Freeman had replied also. Thanks Jim. Oh, and there's another one from Eric Hambly. Also helpful.
In the end, I didn't spray with Sevin after all. Imidan is also recommended, from what I read last year. I was spraying my plums for curculio anyway, so I just sprayed the apples with the Imidan too.
Another year, when the apples look too plentiful, I'll probably try spraying Sevin on maybe one half of a couple of trees and the other half with Imidan, just to see what happens. (And of course to kill the sawflies too.) This year looks like a light crop so it's probably good that I didn't go ahead with the Sevin.

Steve


On 5/31/2013 1:10 PM, Deb Schneider wrote:
A friend of mine has lost all her apples to drop for several years. I
found a reference to carbyl (sp?) possibly being the culprit. She is going
without this spray, so we will see if she gets any apples.

Sorry, not "know", but some input anyway.


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Steve<sdw12986@aol.com> wrote:

>
> Last spring, my apples were quite over run by sawflys. I promised myself
> that this year, I would spray soon after petal fall to knock the
> population back down. The last of the petals fell off earlier this week.
>
> I have Sevin (Carbaryl) and it is one of the pesticides recommended for
> European Apple Sawfly.
>
> Sevin is also sometimes used to make apples drop to avoid hand thinning.
>
> Does anyone here know (not guess) that apples will not be excessively
> thinned if Sevin is sprayed when the apples are not much bigger that a
> pea? Does Sevin work better to thin apples later during the normal June
> drop time and not so much early?
>
> Steve in the Adirondacks
>
> PS Last Saturday it was in the 30s all day, maybe hit 40 for a few
> minutes. Today (six days later), I'm sitting here sweating. It's humid
> and heading into the mid 80s.



  • Re: [nafex] European Apple Sawfly, Steve, 06/10/2013

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