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RE: A Summation On Japanese Beetles

Endophytes have no effect on JB because those beetles don't eat the
grass.  They do kill sod webworms and chinch bugs which eat the grass
and ingest the endophytes.
Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[g*@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of MARGARET
LAUTERBACH
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:32 AM
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
Subject: Re: [GWL] A Summation On Japanese Beetles

Lawn grasses with endophytes certainly are not the same as pasture
grasses. 
I wonder how endophytes do with Japanese beetles...

> Having raised both horses and cattle I can't remember ever having a JB
> problem in the pastures.  I suspect that this is because they would
much 
> rather be
> in turf grasses where the roots that they feed on are much more dense.
It 
> may
> also have to do with the varieties of grasses that are used in
pastures 
> which
> are quite different from those used for lawns.
>
> Andrew Messinger
> The Hampton Gardener
> The Hampton Gardener is a Registered Trade Mark
> (Published every Thursday in the Southampton Press)
>
> 
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