p-DCB vs borers
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: p-DCB vs borers
- From: H* E* P*
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 22:50:51 -0700
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pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
>
> Will moth balls would help protect against the vine borer
> moth? While I understand that it would be difficult to treat an entire
> patch with moth balls, has anyone ever tried dissolving them in water
> and applying with a sprayer?
HE: Peach Tree borer and blackberry borer are clear winged moths, and I
hear on Pumpkins that vine borers are also clear winged moths. The old
control for peach tree borer is to sprinkle para-dichlorobenzene around
the tree and and bank soil up a foot on the tree at a 45 degree slope.
The fumes of P-DCB are heavier than air and the soil causes fumigation
of the lower part of the tree.
It would seem that the same methods would work with vines.
P-DCB is not soluble in water. If one placed some crystals along the
vine and then buried the vine, that might be a control for vineborer.
Moth crystals are napthalene or para-dichlorobenzene. I suspect both
with work, but I would try p-DCB because that is the recommended by
colleges in the old days. I have not checked on whether pDCB is still
the recomended borericide. I have 3 decades of experience using p-DCB to
control moths and some other insects in corn ears in sealed buckets and
had no damage to the germination of the seeds.
--
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