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10-07-2008, 06:48 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Tomato Horn Worms
In article fc.003d0941023e05763b9aca00f732e589.23e0581@pmug. org,
(Glenna Rose) wrote:
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In article ,
"Marie Dodge" wrote:
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"Tonia Fischer" wrote:
Besides pulling them off when you see them. what's a good way to
keep
them
from cominig back? I don't really want to use any manufactured
insecticides. Is there something else I can do?
TIA
Tonia
BT spray. It's organic.
Aren't there different kinds for different worms?
Not from what I've read about it. BT is supposed to kill ALL larval
insect forms. There are water dunks to control baby mosquitos even.
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Peace! Om
Better than control them, they die! The mosquito dunks (with a bacteria
in them that is way too long for me to want to type here) are eaten by the
mosquito larvae which kills them. I use them in my fish pond; they work
beautifully. The water is supposed to be safe for all other life,
insects, animals and plants. I have an abundance of young dragonflies
(but no mosquitos) so it must be true. (Also lots of lilies and various
other pond "greenery" some of which isn't welcome.)
Once a month and no new skeeters here though I welcome all existing
mosquitos to my pond to do their thing. My little bit in "the buck stops
here." g
If the dunks are put in water and the water dries up before the 30-day
life is up, apparently, they reactivate when there is water again. I
cannot address that since there is always water in the pond. I do wonder,
however, why they are not being used in all those swimming pools in
abandoned foreclosed homes they talk about being such a problem on the
news. I'd sure invest in a package and toss them in the pool next door if
there were one there. I drop a quarter of one in each of our bubble basins
on the street, wonderful mosquito brooding pools which are courtesy of our
city fathers of yesteryear.
Glenna
Nice. :-) Thanks!
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Peace! Om
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until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein
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