Re: Cult: the borer and merit

In a message dated 6/17/2003 17:07:53 Eastern Standard Time, 
c_holte@execpc.com writes:

> You must get it on before the eggs hatch.  Which means the first warm day 
> in
> late March or early April.
> 

Hi
Yes i spread it on a warm day in the beginning of April but then it got cold 
and we had snow till the end of April. really. So maybe it was temperature 
sesitive????
Where are the chemists? 
In that i feel like my garden is about to qualify as a toxic waste site, Grub 
control, round up , weed killer, diazinon, Preen...and now i threw out some 
sevin and stuff to killthe red lily beetle......i think be borer needs to be 
adressed more throughly. Because i still can't control it at all.   The life 
cycle as reported in Bill Shears book is inaccurate. The pupae definately winter 
over. So this suggests to me that we have three stages on going at any one 
time.  
Again i think trimming fans is a big part of saving  my iris. Truly you would 
cry to see the devastation.  
Doreen F. McCabe
The Garden House
176 Carlisle Rd
Westford, Massachusetts 01886

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