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Chemicals?? Was ants everywhere
"Bob" wrote in message ... "Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message ... The message from "Franz Heymann" contains these words: By the way, if you used "organic" means other than the highly ineffectual ladybirds to control aphids, you are also killing off your ladybirds. They will simply die of hunger if there are no insects around for them. Is there research that shows they don't simply fly away to find aphids elsewhere? Janet. Last year I had hundreds of ladybirds living on a patch of Euphorbias. A month later they had all flown away and the neighbouring plum tree was swarming with aphids - so a fat load of good they were. I've used no insecticides in the garden in the 3 years I've been here, and the fruit trees are being eaten alive! In the past two years, all the leaves had been sucked dry and had fallen off well before autumn. The "natural balance" obviously doesn't occur at a point compatitble with what I want from the garden, so I'm beginning to think that spraying may be required to give my trees a chance! Of course you should. These "natural" ways of controlling the local balance of nature are mostly hyped up codswallop. Franz |
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