Re: CULT: Lantana juice?

Donald, why don't you try putting it in a blender?  Lantana has such a strong aroma it must have some chemical bugs don't like.  I don't think I have ever seen it damaged by any bug, come to think of it.  Let us know if it works.  Might be valuable for other chewing critters such as Japanese beetles that are a scourge around here a bit later in the season.

Judy Hunt in Louisville, KY, Zone 6


  Well, the grasshoppers are in plentiful supply here and have voracious
  appetites.  They are shredding the irises, which they love, at a rapid
  pace - they apparently love them.  They don't, however, love the lantana.
  They will hide in it, but they don't eat it or damage it in any way.  So I
  was wondering about cutting a good bit of it and squeezing the juice out and
  preparing a bit of pump spray with dish detergent for a sticker and spraying
  the seedlings.  Anyone ever tried anything similar?  There are plants the
  hoppers don't eat.   Wild achillea (yarrow) is one around here.  Several
  assorted milkweed types of weeds.  Also prickly ash, tickle tongue, skunk
  bush - whatever you want to call it.  I'm thinking in terms of a protective
  repellent as opposed to something that kills the grasshoppers.  It's one
  thing for them to chew up a mature plant anchored on mature rhizomes and
  quite another for one to land on a seedling and devour most of the plant in
  a few minutes.

  Donald Eaves
  donald@eastland.net
  Texas Zone 7b, USA - without a clue as to how to go about squeezing that
  juice out and retaining the pungent qualities that may be the repellent
  factor.




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