Re: huge seed pod
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- Subject: Re: huge seed pod
- From: J* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 08:45:37 -0700
From: John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>
Isbell wrote:
>
> From: Isbell <izzy@sound.net>
>
> > Did not get many
> > seed pods perhaps because I sprayed BT to decrease bug damage and I believe
> > it kills bees.
> >
> > I hope you are wrong about killing bees. I like it and would hate to have to
> > give it up, but I cant be killing my bees they are too imporant to a garden.
>
> Dan
The label on my container of Dipel (one of the commercial names for BT) says
that honey bees are not affected and that BT is specific to leaf eating
caterpilllars. See also:
http://www.gardeninfo.com/pests/diphGbio.html
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