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Jangchub wrote:

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:00:36 -0600, Omelet
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Then why are you asking about pillbug control? ;-)

I'm not. I asked if anything would repell them. We didn't have a big
problem with them up in New York.

Ooh, you are killing something! (sorry, could not resist)

A plant is not a sentient being, though a sentient being can live in a
plant. Still then, you are not killing the sentient being, it's in
one of the hell realms.

That's a matter of opinion... :-)
Many people talk to their plants, and experiments have shown that they
seem to respond to both that and music.



I suspect that the passiflora is not getting enough nitrogen... but I'm
still going to use BT this year. At least it's organic.

It's organic, but still a pesticide and still killing with intention.
I'm not saying you are any less than me because you choose to kill
anything, I'm simply expressing that I do not intentionally kill
anything and Bt, though very tempting, especially on my Mountain
Laurels, is out of the question.

At least it's selective... unlike Sevin which will kill any insect it
touches. I truly value my yard spiders!

The caterpillars last year did not just defoliate my plant once, it was
all year. I hand-picked a LOT of them off. One small new vine did not
survive.

I have a choice. Caterpillars temporarily that will finally kill their
food source, or an attempt to get a large, healthy vine established that
next year's crop of butterflies can eat at will...


I've found a local bat roost and am planning to pick up some of the
composted guano from that site for a lot of this years plants.

Cheers!

Yes, we do that too. Wear a mask and gloves and be very careful.
That is fresh guano and can carry many pathogens.

I don't think the bats are back yet are they?
The guano is sitting on cement (it's a freeway overpass) that has gotten
to compost all winter.

I usually get mine
under the McNeil bridge in Round Rock. It's the second largest urban
bat colony in the world. Congress Avenue, Anne Richards bridge is the
largest urban colony in the world.

I know. :-) I've watched that bat flight. (The Congress st. Bridge).

This is a new one. They are living up under the cement overhang on the
Centerpoint street bridge here in San Marcos, I've already reported the
find to Bat Conservation Intl. They informed me that the guy in charge
of DOT bridge building is doing this on purpose. Making the bridge
structures in certain areas bat compatible.

I was impressed. :-)

BCI keeps a record of known bridge colonies and was glad that I called
them.
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