Re: Seven & Bee Safety
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Seven & Bee Safety
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:09:11 EDT
In a message dated 6/29/99 5:28:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
GBPUMPKIN@aol.com writes:
> Previously there were some posts on Bee concerns:
>
> Seven is highly toxic to Bees but not so much as a contact poison after it
> has dried. The problem is Seven has fairly large grains that can be
carried
>
> back to the hive with the pollen. This can result in large kills. One way
> to
> help prevent this is to use liquid Seven, which is processed into smaller
> particles. They are less apt to be transported with the pollen. Always
> spray late in the day to avoid getting spray in the flowers. Allow enough
> drying time before dark to prevent leaf damage.
>
> George Brooks
>
Yeah, but who cares about bees! ITS MY BUSINESS WHAT I DO ON MY PROPERTY!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....Oh sorry, just trying to fit
in with the current mentality out now. Heh heh!
Actually, the main problem I have with cucumber beetles is IN the flowers!
They actually eat the pollen to such and extent, there isn't any left for
pollination. There are SWARMS in the flowers. As many as a hundred in one
flower. Also they are resistant to Sevin, it seems. I dusted last year a lot
when it got bad, and didn;t seem to phase them much at all. I actually
handpicked some flowers, and submerged them into a REALLY STRONG Sevin
solution. Most were still alive and swimming an hour later, even the ones
COATED with white Sevin! I am guessing over the years the guys that grow on
this land overused pesticides and now they don't seem to work much at all. I
am seeing first hand what happens when people do stupid things like that with
their shallow minded mentality on chemical use.
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