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On 1/12/2011 6:56 AM, F Murtz wrote:
> how can I Zap the stink bugs on the lemon tree ?
lux flakes in water used to annoy them a lot

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F Murtz wrote:
> how can I Zap the stink bugs on the lemon tree ?

Best trick is to use a vacum cleaner early and often. Try a godfrey's 
special if you don't have an old one. empty into an old plastic shopping 
bag, knot and stomp on it.

Best toxic substance is confidor. They fall dead out of the tree rather 
quickly. so do a pile of other beneficial insects for years afterwards.

Note, if they are visiting your neighbourhood enmass(had that 2 years 
ago) you need everyone around to take action.

terryc wrote:
> F Murtz wrote:
>> how can I Zap the stink bugs on the lemon tree ?
>
> Best trick is to use a vacum cleaner early and often. Try a godfrey's
> special if you don't have an old one. empty into an old plastic shopping
> bag, knot and stomp on it.
>
> Best toxic substance is confidor. They fall dead out of the tree rather
> quickly. so do a pile of other beneficial insects for years afterwards.

What about the bees that pollinate the lemons if that is what they do?
>
> Note, if they are visiting your neighbourhood enmass(had that 2 years
> ago) you need everyone around to take action.

F Murtz wrote:
> terryc wrote:

>> Best toxic substance is confidor. They fall dead out of the tree rather
>> quickly. so do a pile of other beneficial insects for years afterwards.
> 
> What about the bees that pollinate the lemons if that is what they do?
That might explain why I ended up with few citrus last season. I know 
the native beekeepers hate it.

If you can vacum them up, it is certaily better but two years ago the 
whole neighbourhood was crawling with them and it was a loosing battle 
and they were badly affecting both trees. so it was used as last resort.

East to detect, just thump the branch and they pong, then seek and 
vacumn. they also get annoyed when you mow under the tree or spray water 
o e leaves. Spotting them is the hard thing.

On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:01:15 +1100,  F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote:
  
> > Best toxic substance is confidor. They fall dead out of the tree rather
> > quickly. so do a pile of other beneficial insects for years afterwards.
> 
> What about the bees that pollinate the lemons if that is what they do?
 
Kills them stone dead.

Some uneducated arsehole must have found the local bee hives near my place and nuked them
because there are very few bees (both honey bees and native bees) about this year (Hills
district in Sydney).  Hence the yield of fruit and veges that I grow is way down on last
year.  :-(