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Article #237Re: Earwigs eating butterfly bush
From: Roger
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 03:21
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 03:21
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Earwigs go for anything, regardless of health of plant. They especially like my daisies, but leave many of my other flowering plants alone. I use a very light dusting of sevin, just on the parts they eat - in this case, the flower heads. Catching them is *not* effective in my experience, and very little dust is required. There are also baits by Ortho, but I don't use them as they are pelleted, and will poison birds. Safer Soap spray will also disable the earwigs you see, but this product has no residual power to hamper the 'wigs. "Dave O." <daveo@nospam.express56.com> wrote in message news:3CD6E8CA.2A018CEC@nospam.express56.com... > > >. I did not know that it was normal for > earwigs to feed on an otherwise healthy plant.> > . > Any suggestions on methods that do not use pesticides? How effective > would it be to simply catch them as they feed? (I can't stay out all > night watching for them!) > > Thanks much! > > Dave in Gilroy, CA
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: faa31,4cabbd6206cde6e6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa31,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-09 20:21:22 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Roger" <sherryroger@attbi.com> Newsgroups: ba.gardens References: <3CD6E8CA.2A018CEC@nospam.express56.com> Subject: Re: Earwigs eating butterfly bush Lines: 25 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <R0HC8.12848$WR1.5165@sccrnsc01> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.252.204 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1021000881 12.234.252.204 (Fri, 10 May 2002 03:21:21 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 03:21:21 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 03:21:22 GMT