RE: Help! I'm in panic mode!
How about Cricket Soup?
Polly-ToTo Land
Kansas
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> From: Bob Dabrowski[SMTP:dabrowski@mediaone.net]
> Reply To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 8:22 AM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Help! I'm in panic mode!
>
> Try hot sauce or tobasco sauce that is what I use.
>
> rado1000@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I desperately need advice.
> >
> > I've got three large beautiful pumpkins in the garage, donated for an
> > upcoming event. Unfortunately at this time every year, Northern
> Virginia
> > experiences a plague of crickets. They are enormous and brown - I think
> > they are called camel crickets. Last night I went out to check on the
> > pumpkins and there were crickets all over the pumpkins, and THEY WERE
> > EATING! Actually I only noticed nibbles on one of the three pumpkins
> (maybe
> > it's sweeter or juicier or has softer skin?). There are several spots
> with
> > 1/2" diameter spots where they have eaten the skin off. So far the
> damage
> > is not deep.
> >
> > These pumpkins will be sculpted, so this surface damage won't be too bad
> if
> > I can get those spots cleaned and dried. I'm assuming the standard
> clorox
> > solution is good, plus maybe a fan. But the larger question is what can
> I
> > do to repel these stupid crickets?? Will a bleach solution over the
> entire
> > surface keep them off? Or one of our other insecticides from the
> standard
> > arsenal - Methoxychlor, etc., etc.? What can I put on the skin of these
> > pumpkins that will repel crickets and not affect the surface?
> > Another glitch is that we're leaving today for the weighoff, so I
> won't be
> > able to be out there checking every few hours. I have to get something
> onto
> > them, then we'll be gone for a couple of days.
> >
> > I could try to get the crickets out, but honestly, there are bajillions
> of
> > them. Just as many more would be back in the garage in a jiffy. After
> a
> > couple of good freezes, they will die off, but our average first frost
> isn't
> > till mid-November... Long after the pumpkin project, and far too late to
> > keep these critters from destroying the pumpkins.
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Beth
> >
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