Re: Re: Re: Re: Beetle eating rose blooms

Iris borers I had and fire ants I was trying to prevent. The flea and
termite prophylaxis is a happy secondary benefit as well. Great stuff,
wish it was cheaper though....


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Melody
Sent: 5/14/2004 3:19:51 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [CHAT] Beetle eating rose blooms

> Thanks, Pam.  I assume you do this as a preventative? Or did you start doing it because you had problems with these nasties?
> 
> 
> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> 
> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
> --Albert Einstein
> 
>  --- On Fri 05/14,  < gardenqueen@academicplanet.com > wrote:
> From:  [mailto: gardenqueen@academicplanet.com]
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 06:07:17 -0500
> Subject: Re: Re: Re: [CHAT] Beetle eating rose blooms
> 
> You drop the sponge w/ the nematodes in water to let them loose
> then<br>spray your lawn and beds w/ them. Haven't had an iris borer in 5
> years!<br>Good stuff. And no fleas to bother my angel. Could get
> expensive if you<br>have a large place though.<br><br><br>Pam
> Evans<br>Kemp, TX<br>zone 8A<br>----- Original Message -----<br>From:
> Melody<br>Sent: 5/14/2004 12:44:44 AM<br>To:
> gardenchat@hort.net<br>Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Beetle eating rose
> blooms<br><br>> Pam: Could you explain this a little more fully...when
> you say spray them out, how do you do that?<br>> <br>> <br>> Melody, IA
> (Z 5/4)<br>> <br>> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
> mysterious." <br>> --Albert Einstein<br>> <br>> --- On Thu 05/13, <
> gardenqueen@academicplanet.com > wrote:<br>> From: [mailto:
> gardenqueen@academicplanet.com]<br>> To: gardenchat@hort.net<br>> Date:
> Thu, 13 May 2004 21:17:54 -0500<br>> Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Beetle
> eating rose blooms<br>> <br>> Beneficial nematodes man. S
> 
> pray them out every Spring. Gets the<br>> grubs,<br>flea larvea, fire
> ants, iris borers - all of it. Been doing it<br>> for 5<br>years.
> Recommend it highly.<br><br><br>Pam Evans<br>Kemp,<br>> TX<br>zone
> 8A<br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Andrea H<br>Sent:<br>>
> 5/13/2004 8:29:06 PM<br>To: gardenchat@hort.net<br>Subject: Re:
> [CHAT]<br>> Beetle eating rose blooms<br><br>> sorry, I wasn't very
> clear was I? the<br>> beetles start out as grubs. Although<br>> you can
> kill them as adult<br>> beetles, it is easier (supposedly) to
> control<br>> them by killing the<br>> grubs before they become the
> beetles. So you have to<br>> treat the lawn<br>> where they are
> "metomorphisizing" in the soil.<br>> Andrea H<br>><br>> Beaufort,
> SC<br>> <br>> <br>> ----- Original Message ----- <br>> From:<br>> "Donna
> " <justme@prairieinet.net><br>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net><br>><br>>
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:48 PM<br>> Subject: RE: [CHAT]
> Beetle<br>> eating rose blooms<br>> <br>> <br>> > Why
> 
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