Re: Thrips

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• To: r*@eskimo.com
• Subject: Re: Thrips
• From: "* C* <s*@columbia-center.org>
• Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:20:55 +0000
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On 12 Aug 97 at 6:25, rose-list@eskimo.com wrote:

> Excuse if already discussed but need to know what you all do when you get
> flower thrips on the rose blossoms. I am having a dickens of a problem. Even
> if the blossoms do survive and I bring them in for an arrangement, I
> submerge the rose blossom in water.....they LIVE! I see them running around
> ...you can't kill them apparently. I hate'm.
> 

Next spring, get some green lacewing eggs and sprinkle them around 
the rose bushes.  I did this spring with almost 200 bushes and don't 
have aphids, spidermites, or thrips.  I was awed!!


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susanc@columbia-center.org
Western Oregon, USDA zone 8, Sunset zone 6

Thought for the day:
    A penny saved is ridiculous.

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