Re: Mysterious Holes
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Mysterious Holes
- From: R* T* D* <r*@sierratel.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 21:59:46 -0700 (MST)
J. Griffin Crump wrote:
>
> Linda -- I wasn't on the list for the earlier discussion of crickets,
> but can tell you they are they worst pest I have. Borers pale in
> comparison. It became a significant problem for me about 3 years ago. I
> didn't know what was damaging the rhizomes until I came out with a
> flashlight one night and found them munching away. The sign of cricket
> damage is a shallow, scooped-out depression, ranging from little
> fingernail size to as big as your thumb, usually on top of the rhizome,
> but sometimes on the side. This can and does kill some plants.
Crickets??
Maybe the crickets here in California are different and we have them by
the hordes, but we have never, ever, even once had cricket damage in our
field of tens of thousands of rhizomes.
What problems the crickets cause us is at digging time when we are
filling orders and the orders are in our packing area, during the night
they may come out and chew tiny circular nibbles on the leaves--but even
that doesn't cause virtually any problems at all!
Can't understand unless crickets are much more damaging in other parts
of the country. And others can't possibly have that many more crickets
than we do! And I'm not counting the grasshopper swarms we have either,
I'm talking about crickets.
Hope you all solve the problems, we can't offer any advice because they
do us NO harm at all--knock on wood!
Rick Tasco
Superstition Iris Gardens
Central California Sierra Nevada foothills--66 today and beautiful.
