Re: gypsy worms/caterpillers

  well it sound like you are doing everything right and the catipillers just 
got ya.  Sorry to hear it


>From: Lyle Rockwell <rocky.r@cyber-quest.com>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: gypsy worms/caterpillers
>Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:37:38 -0400
>
>how can you spray early, if you never see the predator? once the prob was
>found, then I did it.. but I always have light coat of sevin on the plant.. 
>it
>is just the case of beign overwhelmed by thousands of gypsy caterpillers.. 
>I
>went out to the hedgerow/patch tonite at 11pm and looked around and 
>listened..
>Amazing how sevin makes the insides of the caterpiller pop, and kills em.. 
>I
>sat and listened to them pop like rice crispies.. but the strange part is 
>that
>some jump from the hedge row and try to survive the sevin, and make it to
>safety in my patch.. that is where my sevin laced plant is waiting for 
>them..
>the prob I had today was that before the sevin kicked in, they crawled to 
>my
>females, and took a big ol bite..
>
>The Pumpkin Master wrote:
>
> > looks to me like you should have started spraying before you saw the big
> > problem.  I recieved other emails saying that this tecnique of spraying
> > early was irresponsible but I have followed it and I have virtually no 
>bugs
> > (knock on wood)  Next year spray early and weekly.
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