RE: CULT: Bugs
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] CULT: Bugs
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- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:22:22 -0500
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From: "Theresa Yates" <tjyates@fanninelectric.com>
I have seen them eat live as well as dead tissue. They usually eat young
seedlings here or newly sprouted things especially if in the shade. Young
daylilies for one. Hostas another ( Can't grow one they like them so much).
Sometimes iris seedlings root leaf & all.
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From: Bill Shear [B*@hsc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 8:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Bugs
From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
>If you consult the "experts" you will be told that the little critters
won't
>eat a rhizome. However, a few years ago, one of my first "major" purchases
>at our bearded auction was Kasperek's BABOONS BOTTOM. This was one of
>several that I bought. All the others were doing quite wonderfully. I
>noticed that this one didn't seem to be going any where. When I looked
>inside the entire rhizome was gone from the center out and in its place
were
>scads of these little bugs. I normally don't use chemicals but this was
the
>last straw. If I remember correctly the same type of treatment that can be
>used for earwigs will succussfully get rid of the little critters.
Are you sure they were eating live tissue and not just cleaning out what
was dead already?
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
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