The Wacki Dear Abbey!

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• To: "Shellie /Mick Cramer" <m*@olywa.net>, "John Failor" <f*@osu.edu>
• Subject: The Wacki Dear Abbey!
• From: "* A* <c*@value.net>
• Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:25:04 -0700

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> John,
>      I'm from the west coast. I had a cucumber beetle siting 2 days ago.
> There were 2 of them on a unprotected back up plant and this has me
worried
> too. When I remove the cloches from the 4 plants I am tending I'll be
> smashing and squishing the ones I can catch. Last year it took one hour
to
> get around one plant to kill them . I couldn't keep up with them and I
was
> loosing leaves to bacterial wilt. I will start a spray program this year.

> Hmmm. Not what I want to do. This is necessary to be competitive. So I'll
> do it..  
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Shellie,

Of course Sevin or Diazanon works great but here is one more thought in
lieu of Spray or in addition to spraying, if you see cukes, squash bugs
etc. in your patch. 

And yes some of you may think I am nuts.

Get out your good old trusty Dust Buster, make sure the Bats. are charged,
start out with the crack and crevice tool, works the best!
Then head out into your patch and just suck them up as you see them!


Chris Andersen
Moraga, Calif.

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