To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] window screen as borer barrier
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 9:57:05 -0500
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:48:30 -0600 "D Stubbs" <dsmndel@gmail.com> wrote:
> My solution to keeping them from depositing eggs below the screen was to
wrap the junction with blue painters tape. . .
I use a little bit of foam sheeting, of the sort that fragile things come
wrapped in when you order by mail. I have a lot of this lying around.
Then I pull the screen tight into the foam.
I haven't had any borer damage, but my sample size is too small to be
predictive.
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Ginda