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fruit tree protection - bee/lady beetle traps
Hello,
First time visitor. I'm looking forward to your helpful advice! I live in Wisconsin and am looking to protect my fruit trees this year. For the prior two seasons, most of my apples have been ruined by bees and Japanese 'lady bug' beetles. They'll actually burrow into the apples eating the insides completly out. I have the apples sprayed by a neighbor landscaping handyman. Doesn't seem to do much good. Late last season someone suggested milk jug traps. I tried them at the season's end and they seemed to capture some of the culprits. These traps are capped containers containing sugar-ed 7-up. Bugs enter through small holes and can't get out. Curious if anyone else has heard of these traps and if my recipe is correct. Thanx for your comments! gopackers |
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fruit tree protection - bee/lady beetle traps
apples are very spray intensive to get unblemished apples. my mother would start
with a dormant oil in spring and most important, an insecticide right at petal fall, then spray with a combination of insecticides and fungicides every 10 days until 2 weeks before harvest. the moth of the wire worms get into apples lay their eggs right when petals are falling. spray too soon, kill the bees, spray too late, apples are wormy. an alternative is disease resistant apples but even then there is still going to be spraying. My uncle would get the sprays needed from a local orchard. there are various kinds of very fine oils that can be used instead of pesticides. dont know how well they work. Ingrid "gopackers" wrote: I live in Wisconsin and am looking to protect my fruit trees this year. For the prior two seasons, most of my apples have been ruined by bees and Japanese 'lady bug' beetles. They'll actually burrow into the apples eating the insides completly out. I have the apples sprayed by a neighbor landscaping handyman. Doesn't seem to do much good. Late last season someone suggested milk jug traps. I tried them at the season's end and they seemed to capture some of the culprits. These traps are capped containers containing sugar-ed 7-up. Bugs enter through small holes and can't get out. Curious if anyone else has heard of these traps and if my recipe is correct. Thanx for your comments! gopackers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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fruit tree protection - bee/lady beetle traps
these two insects are beneficial and are not causing the problems. Ingrid
"gopackers" wrote: For the prior two seasons, most of my apples have been ruined by bees and Japanese 'lady bug' beetles. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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