Help with borer
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- Subject: Help with borer
- From: D* M* <m*@ismi.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:52:49 -0600 (MDT)
First I'd like to thank Kathy Guest for her info on the life cycle of the
Infamous borer. I have a couple of questions. Wwhen the borer leaves the
rhizome can it enter another rhizome thru the dirt or can it only enter thru
the leave route and once it leaves the rhizome it can only go to the next
stage, the pupa. Will it eat the mother rhizome AND the increases. I have a
sense that the increases may escape, no? Also, I live in an oak, maple, etc
forest. Keeping leaves away in the fall is not an option. If I remove iris
debris will that help. I had seen somewhere that spreading garden netting
over a flowwer garden in the fall will allow you to just lift off netting in
the spring along with the leaves and they won't get in among the plants. I
may try this after a fall clean up of iris debris.
mearns@ismi.net
Margie Mearns
Brighton,Michigan
Zone 5.
