We had bagworms in the upper Midwest when I was growing
up in Illinois. Lots of them.

Alan Walker
http://bonsai-bci.com http://LCBSBonsai.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lewis
On Jan 27, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Nina wrote:
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Northern people should be
clear that a lot of the diseases listed there are SOUTHERN
diseases
nobody above the Mason-Dixon line will have to worry about.
snip
On 27 Jan 2005 at 12:48, Craig Cowing wrote:
The same is undoubtedly true with pests.


Sure. But less so. We don't have the bug-killing winters down
here, so we have more bugs. We don't have that many DIFFERENT
bugs. (South Florida, which may have Caribbean bugs, is
probably different.)

We've got everything you have (and probably more of them, for
longer in the year), INCLUDING bagworms, which according to my
books are found well into northern Maine (but they're not in the
upper Midwest, California or the Pacific Northwest).

And you DO have a few that we do NOT have -- like Japanese
beetles.

Fungal (and other?) plant diseases are more susceptible to
weather and climate than insects which can crawl, fly or cocoon
themselves out of the weather.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL

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