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Chewing Critters
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:33:10 -0700, Diana Kulaga wrote
(in article ): Those grasshoppers - luber grasshoppers love Dends! I forget where you are. We do see them in FL. Big suckers. Diana "Manelli Family" wrote in message ... "tbell" wrote in message .com... My GH has been invaded by something that's very fond of chewing on buds and rarely on leaves. Careful search has turned up no snails, slugs, diabrotica or mole crickets, which do a similar number on my roses. Cyhalothrin appears not to discourage the critter. Any thoughts or suggestions? I found a 2" grasshopper devouring the buds on my white den 2 days ago. It did a lot of damage. Thanks, all. Whatever it is seems to prefer large, Catt type buds, and has eaten holes in the leaves of a frangipani I keep in the GH. Mole crickets do very much the same as grasshoppers, but they're both large enough I should be able to see them. Around here (inland No. CA), we have rats from the canal, but no field mice, Kath! Tom Walnut Creek, CA Nikon D200 |
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tbell wrote:
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:33:10 -0700, Diana Kulaga wrote (in article ): Those grasshoppers - luber grasshoppers love Dends! I forget where you are. We do see them in FL. Big suckers. Diana "Manelli Family" wrote in message ... "tbell" wrote in message ews.com... My GH has been invaded by something that's very fond of chewing on buds and rarely on leaves. Careful search has turned up no snails, slugs, diabrotica or mole crickets, which do a similar number on my roses. Cyhalothrin appears not to discourage the critter. Any thoughts or suggestions? I found a 2" grasshopper devouring the buds on my white den 2 days ago. It did a lot of damage. Thanks, all. Whatever it is seems to prefer large, Catt type buds, and has eaten holes in the leaves of a frangipani I keep in the GH. Mole crickets do very much the same as grasshoppers, but they're both large enough I should be able to see them. Around here (inland No. CA), we have rats from the canal, but no field mice, Kath! Tom Walnut Creek, CA Nikon D200 My friends have mice/rats eating their buds, spikes and inflorescnces... so it was a thought. There's a great story of Fordyce stabbing the rat that ate his only remaining piece of Argh 'Neon Light' FCC/AOS was the clonal name..... anyway he hunted teh rat down stabbed it with a knife on a spike then searched the entrails for a viable eye.... to no avail. The gereral opinion is that judges are reincarnated as rats or slugs when they die since these vermin eat only the desireable plants. K |
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"K Barrett" wrote in message . .. My friends have mice/rats eating their buds, spikes and inflorescnces... so it was a thought. There's a great story of Fordyce stabbing the rat that ate his only remaining piece of Argh 'Neon Light' FCC/AOS was the clonal name..... anyway he hunted teh rat down stabbed it with a knife on a spike then searched the entrails for a viable eye.... to no avail. The gereral opinion is that judges are reincarnated as rats or slugs when they die since these vermin eat only the desireable plants. The snakes here keep the field mice under control but I plan to use mouse-rat baits in the GH this winter. We don't have rats this far from town. |
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