Re: Borer eggs revisited
- Subject: Re: Borer eggs revisited
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:08:54 PDT
I am lucky indeed. I have really seen no bugs and I just spray once a
week lightly. So where is everyone located that has the vine borers?
>From: Elkskin@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Borer eggs revisited
>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:30:14 EDT
>
>Rocky,
>
>If your main vines are buried, the female wasp will lay eggs at the base of
>the leaves and the grubs will bore in from there to get to the main vine, I
>have been spraying "Marlate 50 WP" which has 50% Methoxochlor in it at 7
>day
>intervals and am still getting vine borers, if the eggs hatch in as little
>as
>3 days at 90 degrees (Which seems to be the temp most people are having)
>and
>bore in the vine in as little as 2, it would seem that we need to spray
>every
>five days "minimum" at least this is the action I'm taking, believe me, the
>people who don't have to deal with these damn grubs are lucky indeed, its
>hard to believe that 1 wasp can kill a Giant Plant with 1000 leaves in a
>very
>short few weeks and it doesn't care how BIG! the pumpkin is growing on it.
>(Elkskin)
>
><< My question about Borers would be this.. if vines are buried, can the
>larvae
> instinctively dig into the soil, and get to the root? Are they this
>smart,
>or do
> they just look for unburied roots? Anyone out there have horror story
>about
>buried
> vines being eaten by SVB'rs?
> >>
>
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