RE: spider mites was: Gardener's dance routines - Free LEWISIA

Marge,

Thanks for the info!  I am late on getting responses out these days as
e-mail is extremely backed-up.  Thinking about going digest.

BTW, I was the winner of the Lewisias.  Have all 15 on my front porch and
they are getting some TLC until they get their permanent homes.  Thanks
Duncan!

Craig Wallace
craig.wallace@emotors.com
Brighton, Illinois
Zone 5 (old zone)

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a
garden." -Ruth Stout


> ----------
> From: 	Marge Talt[SMTP:mtalt@clark.net]
> Reply To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
> Sent: 	Saturday, June 05, 1999 12:58 AM
> To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: 	Re: spider mites  was:  Gardener's dance routines - Free
> LEWISIA
> 
> Craig,
> 
> As far as I know, neither Safer's nor hort. oil is toxic to pets or
> wildlife.  They both come with the usual disclaimers ....I wouldn't drink
> them....but I've had no ill effects from getting them on my bare skin,
> tho'
> doubt I'd bathe in them, either.  Both are contact insecticides in that
> they only work when they come in contact with an insect.  Both work, I
> believe, by basically smothering the bug.  Insects "breathe" through their
> "skin", so when something clogs up those pores, they die.  Safer's is
> mostly effective on soft-bodied insects; doesn't do a thing for Japanese
> Beetles, for instance, but is effective on various kinds of scale insects,
> esp. if you get them at the right stage when they are moving around......"

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