Re: Sevin

What about reduces the number of honey bee's as Sevin is highly toxic to honey bees

At 09:41 AM 5/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Marv,

I don't thing Sevin is the problem at all, it's a very mild pesticide in
comparison to many others.  I think what is happening is that the female
flowers you are pollinating are aborting naturally, it's natures way of
saying 'something is not right'.

Dave
Sterling, MA
----- Original Message -----
From: <Lubadub@aol.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: Sevin


> I have used Sevin for quite some time on my pumpkins. I read somewhere
that it is used by some apple growers to reduce the number of blossums on a
tree that become actual apples. This way they get fewer but larger apples. I
have had problems some years with female pumpkin blossums dying rather than
forming pumpkins after I pollinated them. Does anyone think that the use of
Sevin as a pesticide on my pumpkins just might be contributing to this? I
have started to use Sevin later in the season now, after I have some
pumpkins going, as it is an effective pesticide against most everything
except spider mites. It actually enhances the growth of spider mites in my
patch and so I intermittently apply some Malathion which seems to eliminate
them.
> Marv in Altoona
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