CULT: Borer

From: "Ian E. & Shirley Efford" <avocet.intl@sympatico.ca>

Anner, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, their cumbersome but official
name this week, has an expert on that particular group of moths.  He is
in Ottawa but responsible for the whole country.  He is not involved in
any control studies on iris borer itself but, when I discussed it with
him, indicated that they would undertake some studies with a summer
research assistant if funding was provided by AIS.  I mentioned this in
an earlier mailing with the hope that someone connected with the
research side of AIS might pick it up and run with it.  I would like to
see the nematode control studies, undertaken in Maryland, repeated right
here in a much colder zone.  We can certainly grow some very large borer
larvae during the summer and I, personally, would be delighted never to
see Cygon again.

Ian, in Ottawa where I will definitely enter November with I.variegata
flowering - a record I would imagine.  It is about the month the species
should flower in the mild parts of Southern Australia!

 

Anner

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