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Wed, Jun 11, 14 at 9:57
| I'm experiencing a massive Leaffooted Stink Bug invasion. They're on my peaches, pomegranates, and potatoes. I'm about to lose my mind. I just bought a co2 gun with a table salt ammo modification, and I'm going to start disintegrating these monsters. Maybe I already have lost my mind. Are there any effective traps? Is hand-to-hand combat the only way? I've dealt with citrus scale, citrus leaf miner, codling moth, earwigs, apple borers, etc etc.... These are just too much! So gross and so big! |
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| Salt and fruit trees isn't a good combination. A little is OK but not too much. I certainly won't blast it into the fruit. You might as well pull it off. Stink bugs of all kinds are a challenge to put it kindly. I don't know what I'd do. Maybe net the tree and spray once to kill those inside. I know that's not an attractive option. |
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| Thanks for the input fruitnut. I think I will actually use sand; its a neat little targeted pistol. At this point I'm willing to sacrifice some fruit to blast these monsters, I just can't spray, because I can't reliably keep my two year old daughter from eating everything she finds that is near ripe in our garden. I can hand pull off my potatoes, but my pomegranate tree is too tall and is in with my chickens; another reason not to spray. |
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