Re: CULT: borer season?
From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
Dennis,
Look for the pupae in the ground. If it's a long season, there might be
second cycle of borer. We had two cycles of borer the year that spring
started early March instead of end of April.
Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4)
> From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
>
> Is it borer season yet? I found an iris with a bunch of "goo" piled on
> top
> of the rhizome at the base of the fan. I pushed it aside and found a hole
> in the base of the fan.
>
> After digging it up I saw that the hole was a tunnel clear through to the
> other end of the rhizome, but there was no worm in it.
>
>
> Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
> Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
> Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, SIGNA, SLI, & Miami Valley Iris Society
> Primary Interests: ABs, REBs, LAs, Native SPEC and SPEC-X hybrids
> (Gardening URL: http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html)
>
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